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Ⅰ 求一篇短篇的英语新闻，最好是最新的，越简单越好的

奥巴马被指与美艳泰国总理“眉来眼去”
President Obama is practicing a new brand of foreign relations, appearing to flirt with Thailand’s attractive prime minister on his first stop of his three-day tour of Southeast Asia。美国总统奥巴马正在实践一种新型外交手段。在为期三天的东南亚三国访问中，他第一站到访的是泰国，与迷人的泰国美女总理英拉看来相谈甚欢，被指有“打情骂俏”之嫌。

The president and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra could be seen laughing together and exchanging playful glances through a state dinner at the Government House in Bangkok on Sunday。周日在曼谷举行的招待国宴上，奥巴马总统与泰国总理英拉·西那瓦被拍到一起大笑，两人“眉来眼去”。
And just hours later, Obama jetted to Myanmar, where he was picturedlavishing affection on Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who was under house arrest for two decades following her fight for democracy。几个小时后，奥巴马乘坐喷气式飞机前往缅甸，在与缅甸反对派领袖昂山素季的合照中，奥巴马似乎不吝表达对她的赞赏之情。昂山素季因为支持和争取民主而曾被软禁了近20年。

He was joined in Thailand by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They then visited Myanmar - also known as Burma - and Cambodia, making him the first U.S. president to step foot in either country。陪同奥巴马前往泰国的还有美国国务卿希拉里，随后他们一同前往缅甸和柬埔寨访问。奥巴马也是美国历史上首位出访缅甸和柬埔寨的总统。

He said it is 'no accident' that he planned his first foreign trip to Asia after winning re-election. Speaking at a news conference on Sunday in Bangkok, Obama emphasized that the U.S. is a 'Pacific nation.'奥巴马说他在获得连任后的首次出访地点就选在亚洲，这绝非偶然。周日在泰国首都曼谷举行的新闻发布会上，奥巴马强调美国是一个“太平洋国家”。

The president's visit made quite an impression on Thailand, and he visited the Temple of Reclining Buddha just after arriving in Bangkok。奥巴马的到访给泰国民众留下了很不错的印象。奥巴马在到达曼谷后不久就拜访了著名的卧佛寺。

Ⅱ 求一篇短小的英语新闻

A purported new video of Osama bin Laden shows the al-Qaeda leader urging Americans to convert to Islam to stop the Iraq war, but the video does not contain any overt threat ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The videotape's authenticity has not yet been confirmed, but media organizations have quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying it appeared to have been made as recently as this summer.

In a soft voice, and measured tone, the man purported to be bin Laden delivers a wandering 30-minute tirade against democracy, capitalism and Western political leaders.

He specifically refers to U.S. President George W. Bush, the Democratic victory in U.S. Congress, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was elected in May, and new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took office in June.

讲本拉登的一段录像。
第一段里面他说美国人应该停止攻打伊拉克并且改信伊斯兰教，但录像里并未提及911六周年的事。
第二段说，录像的真实性还没被证实，但一个美国匿名军官表示此录像带是在最近这个夏天拍成的。
第三段说，录像里这个初步被认为是本拉登的人以一个很轻的，电脑处理过的声音做了30分钟的演讲。内容主要是反对民主，资本主义，还有西方领导人
第四段说，他特别提到布什总统，美国两议院中民主党的胜出，法国五月当选的总统萨尔科齐，和英国六月上任的新总理布朗

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Ⅲ 英语新闻

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Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt 探秘古埃及金字塔
The pilgrims that come here today are following the footsteps of those who have come here for 17 centuries. It is gratifying to see people who come here as casual tourists and then become aware of the tremendous spiritual heritage that is here, and they come as tourists and they leave as pilgrims.

From this site, Moses is believed to have shown his people the way to their promised land, and the Jewish nation was born.

Egypt had long had its own icons in mythologies. The most mysterious of all is the largest free-standing stone sculpture in the world. No one is certain who it represents or even who built it. Half human, half animal, the Sphinx has long been considered the strangest icon on earth. At 60 meters long and 20 high, it guards the Giza plateau beside Egypt's two largest pyramids. For centuries, the Sphinx has been seen as the key to life. Pharaohs have worshiped at its feet. Conquerors have knelt down before it. The Sphinx has been subjected to every test, but remains an enigma. Why was it built? Why are the tunnels inside it? Which king does it represent? What power does the Sphinx hold?

They call him Father of the Terra. They are afraid of him. And, can you imagine even the locals today are afraid of the Sphinx? The people at that time were also afraid--Maybe he is just here watching you all the time.

In ancient Egyptian art, the idea of fusing animal with human was nothing new. But this was the first time a human head was sculpted onto a lion's body. And in ancient Egypt, there was only one person who could be portrayed in such a way--the pharaoh himself.

The king, being the manifestation of Egypt, he has to be virile, mighty, fearless and powerful. So, you have here the head of the king representing intelligence, but the body of a lion representing might and power.

The Sphinx stands in a vast U-shaped quarry before the Great Pyramid built by Khufu and the second pyramid built by his son Khafre. It is thought to represent one of them. But why build a sculpture in the middle of a pyramid complex?

It's cut from actual rock. So, this huge rock was standing there. So, they decided to do something with it. And that thing would have been a huge statue that would manifest the king and in the mean time, it would be a symbol for the sun god Ra.

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Cuba in the toilet

Now for our "What In The World" segment. Here's what got my attention this week - a roll of toilet paper. Certainly not the normal subject for us here at GPS, but this is special toilet paper - Cuban toilet paper. It turns out Cuba may be running out of this stuff. The government has warned its citizens in recent days that they are facing a toilet paper shortage. And they added this paucity of paper could last until the end of the year, when they expect a shipment to come in.

So how did this happen? Well, the Cubans blame it on the global financial crisis and the hurricanes that they were hit with last year. Now the financial crisis is hurting everyone, but I had yet to hear shortfalls in toilet paper in other places. What I think is really at the bottom of this toilet paper crisis is Cuba's continuing commitment to its bizarre world of socialistic economics. Just two weeks ago, Raul Castro vowed, yet again, to keep communism alive in Cuba, to make sure capitalism doesn't return. In a world of flux, I suppose it is comforting to know that something stays the same.

Cuba's disastrous economy would be a joke where not for the poverty it has perpetuated among millions of Cubans. The whole country is stagnating. Fifty percent of its arable fields are going unfarmed. First and second year college students now work one month out of the year in agriculture. Its insane farm policies lead to frequent shortages of fruit, vegetables and other basic food needs, shortages even more serious than toilet paper. And all those programs they've held up for years as successes of the communist revolution - free ecation for all through college, universal healthcare. Well, Raul Castro just announced that they're gonna have to make cuts in all of these. Meanwhile, the average Cuban still earns the equivalent of less than 20 dollars per month.

Now capitalism has its problems as we have all seen, but at least we are not running out of toilet paper.

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Angry typhoon victims

The military helicopters are bringing in the last of the stranded villagers now for some of their relatives and friends, who have been waiting here for days, there is relief. For others though, there is the anguish of not knowing.

"Help us, please save my children, I have been waiting four days already." Says this woman.

At her tent, anger, especially at local officials.

"They said it was safe and we didn't need to evacuate. Now there is not even a road to get back." He says.

And the man, who is the focus of much of the national blame is President Ma Ying-jeou, often confronted by angry survivors as he toured the disaster zone.

"How do you respond to people who blame you and your government, and say listen this was just all too slow to begin with, and then, when it did get underway, it just wasn't enough."

"Now, we certainly, I will take full responsibility, whatever the blame is, because, after all, I am the president of this country."

But President Ma says the slow start was because of bad weather, heavy rain left helicopters grounded.

"Once the weather is good, in one day, that is the 14th of August, we were able to evacuate 2518 people. It's a record."

But there was outrage last week, when he blamed local officials.

"They were not fully prepared."

So now he's seen comforting the grieving, apologizing, promising to do better. But as he opened the weekend baseball game, he was booed and jeered. Protesters demanded his resignation.

"We'll find out, not only to correct the mistakes, but also may try to punish the people who are responsible."

As the rescue operations slowly wind down, the focus will soon shift to rebuilding lives and communities. Taiwan's embattled president told me that simply repairing all the damage from Typhoon Morakot could take up to a year.

John Vause, CNN, Cishan, Taiwan.

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Japan's ramen robot
Japan's obsession with the machines has gone one step further with this creation - a ramen noodle robot chef. At the Fuamen Ramen Noodle shop in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, two robotic arms are busy serving their hungry customers, doling out nearly 80 bowls of noodles on a busy day. Kenji Nagoya, the owner of the noodle shop and a robot manufacturer, says nobody gets it as accurate as the robots.

"The benefits of using robots as Ramen chefs include the accuracy of timing in boiling noodles, precise movements in adding toppings and consistency in the taste."

Nagoya's robot factory opened the noodle shop less than a month ago to showcase its latest robotic technology. The noodle shop which sells a regular noodle bowl with a pork broth-based soup for seven dollars is yet to make profit, partly e to the large investment in the research and development of the robotic arms. But the restaurant is definitely getting a lot of attention and building its reputation. Customers say the noodles taste as good as those made by humans.

"I don't feel any difference in taste between this ramen and those cooked by human chef."

Humans are not completely out of the equation and do have to step in occasionally to prepare the soup stock, take orders and receive money. But the robot arms will take care of the rest. The machines are pre-programmed to boil noodles, pour the soup into bowls and sprinkle toppings. Customers get to watch the whole process of the automated ramen making which takes one minute and forty seconds per bowl. During downtime the robots entertain customers by demonstrating various tricks.

Puja Bharwani, Reuters.

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It's a drag
A different sort of car concern across the country - illegal street racing, putting the pedal to the metal is often glorified on the big screen, but in reality street racing can be deadly, killing dozens of people every year. It’s become such a problem in one particular Texas town that a professional track is welcoming would-be raced... Oh, I should say drag racers, in an effort to keep the danger off the public roadways.

It’s not NASCAR and it’s definitely not Indy. “One, two.” But these races at the Texas Motor Speedway may be much more important.

"We are trying to get people off the streets from doing this illegally.”

And with good reason, just last week, a teen died in a drag racing accident in Fort Worth. Across the country about 30 people die each year in racing accidents. So officials at the Texas Motor Speedway came up with the plan - open this racetrack to everyone.

"It’s an eighth of a mile, so we try to pair them up to where my PT Cruiser isn't racing as a star, you know, Mustang, Shelby Cobra.”

So far the event's been a huge success with about 125 drivers each week. Drivers paid a play just 20 bucks.

"It's just the burning-out, just not having to worry about the cops. And everything is safe.”

"Fastest I've been so far in the eighth mile was 6.1 at 114-mile-an-hour.”

Chad Marquez admits he’s done illegal drag racing before but says it’s not worth the possible jail-time or worse.

"There I read the car hurt somebody, it’s not worth it.”

Here fire crews are standing by just in case.

"Your most drags strips are a quarter of mile, so you can get going a whole lot faster than you can here, a lot of these cars aren't going, 100+ miles an hour when they get to the end. But I think it just gets back to, you know everybody’s get a little bit hot rod in them, you know, that's, that’s the appeal.”

In Fort Worth, Kris Gutierrez, Fox News.

Ⅳ 求一篇英语新闻

Here is the news for Saturday, the 14th of April 2050. The first group of Chinese tourists has returned from the moon. A group of 25 tourists landed last night at the Space Research Center in Qinghai Province. They had been in space for one week. Their trip includeed a visit to three different places on the moon. Each of the tourists paid one and a half million yuan for the trip. 追问： 翻译一下 回答： 这儿是周六新闻，2050年4月14日，中国第一批太空游客从月球返回。由25人组成的旅游小组于昨晚在青海宇宙研究中心着陆。他们已经在太空呆了一周。他们的旅行包括参观月球的三处不同地方。每个游客在本次旅游中支付了1.5元。（科学小品）

Ⅳ 英语任务型阅读 We need animals. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature.

In the first place，the zoos provide the animals with comfortable and safe living places. 这种英语阅读最好是提供上下文的，要理解通篇的意思，填出来的词语才会显得文章版连贯。这权样从中弄出一两句的来填，就有可能导致文章不连贯哦

Ⅵ MY favorite animal 英语作文

My favourite animal is a dog or anything to do with the dog family. I love dogs. I also love their wild relatives, coyotes and wolves.

The reason I love dogs so much is because they are loyal and they are man's best friend. I have a dog. He is part Australian cattle dog. His name is Ice. I love Ice very much.

The reason I love Ice so much is because when we first got him, just a little over a year ago, he had hurt his paw. I walk slower than most people do because I have congenital chorea. I took Ice outside one morning and I was walking down the stairs to get to our front lawn. Ice sat at the top of the stairs, holding his sore paw up in the air and he waited until I had gotten all the way down the stairs before he went down them.

Ⅶ 求4篇英语新闻

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Canada sends plane to monitor Russian nuclear submarines
Source: Onion 2009-08-13 English BBS Favorite OTTAWA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Canada has sent a surveillance plane to waters off its East Coast to monitor a pair of nuclear-powered Russian submarines in the area, military officials said Wednesday.
The Russian submarines were first spotted on Aug. 5 in international waters off Georgia. It is believed the Akula II Class warships have since moved north, and remain outside of Canadian and American territorial limits, which extends 12 nautical miles into the ocean, the Canadian Press (CP) reported citing Canadian defense sources.

A spokesman for Canada Command, the Ottawa-based military headquarters in charge of continental defense, downplayed the surveillance mission and refused to discuss details, describing it as "routine" for the patrol aircraft which have spent most of their nearly 30 year career as submarine hunters.

On Tuesday, Canada's Defense Minister John MacKay said that the Russian submarines had not done anything threatening, but said it is all part of a pattern of "Russia flexing its muscle" on the world stage.

"For a variety of reasons, to demonstrate our commitment to sovereignty, we're watching to ensure we know what is happening along our coastlines," he said in an interview with the CP.

The excursion of the Russian submarines is the first of its kind since the end of the Cold War. It is viewed as another sign of stepped up Russian military activity in the Arctic region.

The Arctic, with its prospective mineral wealth and ill-defined borders, has become an area of intense competition among Canada, Russia, the United States, Denmark and other countries.

Earlier this year, Canada announced it scrambled two fighter planes to intercept an approaching Russian bomber over the Arctic region.

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2国内英语新闻:Int'l agricultural fair in riot-hit Urumqi draws 110,000 visitors
Source: Onion 2009-08-13 English BBS Favorite URUMQI, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The 9th China Xinjiang International Agricultural Fair opened in the northwestern city of Urumqi Wednesday, attracting 110,000 business people from around the world.
Representatives with 987 companies from 15 countries and regions have arrived to attend the three-day event, which features exhibitions of fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, the organizers said in a press release.

It would be the largest fair compared with the previous eight sessions in terms of its visitors and scope, the organizers said.

"The fair is held against the backdrop of global financial crisis and the July 5 riot," the press release said. "The organizers will arrange activities to promote Xinjiang's agricultural procts that have not been selling well e to the aftermath of the riot."

The riot in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has left 197 people dead, mostly innocent civilians, and more than 1,600 others injured.

But business people still hope to cash in on the vast market opportunities of Xinjiang, which takes up a sixth of Chinese territory, as Urumqi is graally recovering from the violence.

"Our company entered the Xinjiang market in 2005 selling fertilizers and has won a wide recognition of local farmers," said Gu Rongbao, manager of the Jinlaifu Chemicals Import and Export Co. Ltd. from eastern Shandong Province. "We have confidence in the future development in Xinjiang."

The annual fair is jointly organized by the regional government's departments of agriculture, animal husbandry among others.

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娱乐英语新闻:Michael Douglas "devastated" by son's arrest for drug selling
Source: Onion 2009-08-13 English BBS Favorite BEIJING, August 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The famous Hollywood actor Michael Douglas said on Wednesday that he and his family were "devastated" by the arrest of his son Cameron Douglas on charges of selling the illegal drug methamphetamine.
"The family is devastated and very disappointed in Cameron's recent behavior," Michael Douglas and his former wife, Diandra Douglas, said in a statement to People magazine, "Any family who has dealt with substance abuse knows how devastating it can be."

It was the first time they publicly addressed their son's July 28 arrest.

Michael Douglas(R) and Catherine Zeta-Jones arrive at the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity awards dinner in New York September 22, 2008

Cameron was arrested at a Manhattan hotel, and prosecutors allege he shipped large quantities of the drug from California to New York via mail service FedEx. He could get life in prison if convicted of charges that he sold thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine.

Michael Douglas, the son of Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas, won an Oscar for his role in the 1987 movie "Wall Street," and has since starred in "Traffic" and "You, Me and Dupree." He is married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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4体坛英语新闻：Ronaldo to be back in action in 1 month
Source: Onion 2009-08-13 English BBS Favorite RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian star striker Ronaldo said Wednesday that he would return to field in a month after figure surgery but declined to clarify the reports over weight recing liposuction.
"We have a period of one month for the consolidation of the bone," said Ronaldo, who had surgery on his left hand two weeks ago after he fell badly to be injured ring Corinthians' 3-0 defeat by Palmeiras on July 26.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo applauds before his team's friendly soccer match against D.C. United in Landover, Maryland, August 9, 2009

Asked at a news conference if he had had liposuction and if he thought it could help him, Ronaldo said: "I don't know, I don't even know if I did it. These are things we don't know...What I do with my private life is my business."

Corinthians have not won in five matches and slipped to 11th in the Brazilian soccer championship standings.

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Ⅷ 请教英语高手阅读理解

1 Sleep is something we generally associate with living persons or animals
2 sleep or not
3 differenet age of people need different sleep time
4 they sleep more hours than Japanese people

Ⅸ 概括这篇英语新闻

Michael Phelps, after winning eight swimming gold medals at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, received extraordinary welcome by his county people with the largest and most extravagant parade at his hometwon, Towson, Md.