美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-15_在线英语听力室

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1. Vice¹ President Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan are in Kentucky. The matchup is the one and only debate between the two before the November election. The president and Mitt² Romney meet up again on Tuesday.

2. A security official who worked for the US Embassy in Yemen has been assassinated³ in a drive-by shooting in the country's capital. Security officials say the victim had been a lead investigator⁴ into an assault on the compound last month. But the State Department says he wasn't involved.

3. Police say a third person has died, following the collapse⁵ of a parking garage at Miami Dade College. The latest victim was pulled from the rubble⁶ some 13 hours after the five-story structure fell.

4. And a National Zoo veterinarian says a liver problem is to blame for last month's death of a 6-day-old giant panda cub⁷. The zoo also offered a glimpse of the cub's mother. Her behavior appears to be slowly returning to normal.

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1 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。 They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 mitt
n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手
参考例句：
I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。 Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

3 assassinated
v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 )；中伤；诋毁；破坏
参考例句：
The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。 Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。来自辞典例句

4 investigator
n.研究者，调查者，审查者
参考例句：
He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。 The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。

5 collapse
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。 The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

6 rubble
n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾
参考例句：
After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。 After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

7 cub
n.幼兽，年轻无经验的人
参考例句：
The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。 The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-10-15