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In central and southern Illinoi the death toll¹ has climbed to 5 after a strong serious tornados³ and heavy storms ripped across the mid⁴ west Ohio valley.Alex Reshiano of a member station WCBU reports Washington Illionoi is among the areas hardest hit.

Houndreds of prople picked through the rubble⁵ of the remain of their homes in a town of about 15,000.The tornado² destroyed entire bolcks of homes.Resident Susan Newton lives next door to trails edge neighbourhood that was heavily damaged.She said the tornado demolished⁶ most fore⁷ street while she was a church.

Most neighbours had lost their entire home and last night we were at a dinner party at front of home is gone gone,there is nothing left

Ambulances continue to race across town and traffic near Washington was backed up for miles.Emergency shelters are set up across the community.For NPR News,I am Alex in Period.

In Egypt the interior ministry⁸ says an unidentified gunman shot and killed a senior national security officer late today near his home at Cairo suburb.The  work for the branch of Egypt's national security agency that oversees⁹ monitoring of Islamist groups including The Muslim brotherhood¹⁰.

In the Libian capital of Tripoli residents held a general strike today to protest ongoing¹¹ lawlessness in the city.They are demanding that many armed militias¹² operating there be dispanded.The strike comes after militias fired on thousands demostrators Friday killing¹³ 43 people.The militias are made up of former rebels against the Gadafi regime who are anow rivals.

Emergency official in Russia say a Boeing 737 airliner¹⁴ has crashed killing all 50 people on board.From Moscow NPR's Cory reports the plane crashed while trying to land in the central Russia city of Kazan.

Official say the Tataerstan airlines jet was carrying 44 passengers and 6 crew members when it went down.So far there has been no indication of what caused the crash which reportedly acurry the plane was making a second attempted landing.Weather in the area was reported to be miled,the flight was just completing the 450 mile trip from Moscow to Kazan.Russia has had a serious deadly crases in recent years some of which have been blamed on the neglect of safety procedures,poor crew training and weak government oversight¹⁵.Cory NPR News,Moscow.

Nobel prize winning novelist Lesin has died.Her early life in Persa,Iran and Southern Audia now in Zinbabuwi profoundedly affected¹⁶ her writing.Lisen took on European colonelism in Africa,race and faminism all coming together in her novel The golden note book which brought her international claim.Lisen died at her home in London,she was 94.

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Phillipine president Arkino today visited some of the area's devastated¹⁷ by typhoon Haiyan more than a week ago and he says he is not leaving.After stopping in the hardest hit province,Arkino says he stays until he sees more progress in the recovery efforts.

Scientists are sounding a warnning about rising sea levels but this time they are not pointing to green house gases.They say several earthquakes under the Artactic Ished could indicate an active volcano during there.NPR's Richard Harris reports an enruption could melt ties and push sea levels higher.

Scientists measured swarms¹⁸ of earthquakes in west Artactic during expeditions in 2010 and 2011,they resemble the kinds of earthquakes caused by magma moving under a volcano.There is no indication that an enruption is likely any time soon,but the sicentists report in a nature geosciences that they found signs of vocanake ash from an eruption¹⁹ would have occured 8000 years ago.Scientists say an eruption probablely wouldn't blast through the ice which is about a mile thick this location,but they say a bared vocano could melt a lot ice and that water could lubcate the under site of this ished sending surging into the ocean and casusing sea level to rise.Richard Harris,NPR News.

The Forbes family is looking for buyer of his magazine and web publications. Forbes is best known for its coverage²⁰ of wealth,finance and offering rankings of the world's richest people.The company's CEO told employees Friday that more than a few potential buyers have expressed interest.Forbes like other magazine publishers has had to deal with consumers and advertisers shifting away from print in the digital world.

I am Barbara Cline,NPR News in Washington.

1 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

2 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

3 tornados   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
• They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网

4 mid   

adj.中央的，中间的

参考例句：

• Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
• He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。

5 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。

6 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

7 fore   

adv.在前面；adj.先前的；在前部的；n.前部

参考例句：

• Your seat is in the fore part of the aircraft.你的座位在飞机的前部。
• I have the gift of fore knowledge.我能够未卜先知。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 oversees   

v.监督，监视( oversee的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She oversees both the research and the manufacturing departments. 她既监督研究部门又监督生产部门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Department of Education oversees the federal programs dealing with education. 教育部监管处理教育的联邦程序。 来自互联网

10 brotherhood   

n.兄弟般的关系，手中情谊

参考例句：

• They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
• They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。

11 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

12 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网

13 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

14 airliner   

n.客机，班机

参考例句：

• The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
• The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。

15 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

16 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

17 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

18 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

19 eruption   

n.火山爆发；（战争等）爆发；（疾病等）发作

参考例句：

• The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
• The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。

20 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。