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roar n. 吼,咆哮,轰鸣；v. 吼,大声说出,叫喊

词形变化: 名词:roarer 动词过去式:roared 过去分词:roared 现在分词:roaring 第三人称单数:roars

e.g.His amusing performance caused a roar of laughter in the audience.他那有趣的表演引起了观众的哄堂大笑。

hurricane n. 飓风

evacuation n. 撤离,疏散

e.g.Order go out to prepare for the evacuation of the city.为撤离该城作准备的命令已下达。

refuel v. 补给燃料

precaution n. 预防,留心,警戒

e.g. I took the precaution of locking everything in the safe.我把一切东西都锁在保险箱里以防万一。

foreshadow v. 预示,预兆;vt. 预兆

e.g.The increase in taxes had been foreshadowed in the minister's speech.部长的讲话中早已预示要提高税额.

magnitude n. 大小,重要,光度,（地震）级数

e.g.The magnitude of the epidemic was frightening.这种流行病传播范围之广令人惶惶不安。

trek vt. 艰苦跋涉(行军);n. 艰苦跋涉

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MONICA LLOYD, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, we're glad you with us for this Thursday edition of CNN Student News. I'm Monica Lloyd. A severe storm: Cyclones don't show up in the Middle East very often, but a powerful one is roaring through the region right now. A drought discovery: Dry conditions in Florida lower a lake's level and uncover artifacts that might be thousands of years old. And an extraordinary athlete: A 5-year-old is getting a lot of attention in the golf world, but his game is only half of his incredible story.

First Up: Cyclone Gonu

LLOYD: First up today, a major storm is causing some problems for parts of the Middle East. Here's a quick quiz for you: What season are we in right now? Summer doesn't officially start for a couple weeks, so Spring is a pretty good answer. But so is hurricane season. The tropical storms are called cyclones in some parts of the world, and Michael Holmes explains how a big one is affecting the Persian Gulf right now.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN REPORTER: Pounding waves, uprooted trees, flood warnings and evacuations: the wrath of Cyclone Gonu in the Gulf region, one of the strongest ever recorded in the area. The damage done, and what could still happen, affects more than trees and buildings though.

The region is, of course, a major shipping and oil supply center. Already oil prices have gone up because of the disruption caused and the disruption that may still occur as Gonu heads towards Iran. In Oman, tens of thousands of people were evacuated, electricity was cut and the major port of Sohar was closed down, as were airports. Oil refineries remained operational, but at reduced output, as winds in the capital Muscat topped 100 kilometers an hour, about 62 miles an hour.

To the northeast, at the world's third largest shipping fuel center, the UAE port of Fujairah, all refueling and supply operations were halted. At one point on Tuesday, Gonu was listed as a Category Five cyclone, the highest level. It was later downgraded, but still packs a punch as it heads towards the Strait of Hormuz, the world's major transport artery for Persian Gulf oil.

Oil prices spiked on fears that the cyclone could disrupt oil supply from Iran, although weather forecasters say Gonu should weaken before arriving there. Still, there are reports Iranian authorities evacuated several hundred people from coastal areas as a precaution. Michael Holmes, CNN, Atlanta.

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Shoutout

GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout! How do you spell Okeechobee? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Okichobee, B) Ohkechobee, C) Okechobe or D) Okeechobee? You've got three seconds -- GO! The answer is D, with four e's, if you please! The Okeechobee is a lake in Florida. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

Uncovering History

LLOYD: Now you know how to spell it. But there's not as much of Lake Okeechobee to see these days. That's because it's at a record low level thanks to a statewide drought. That would usually be pretty bad. But it turns out it was hiding a lot of cool stuff. Jim Abath of WPBF tells us what turned up when the waters went down.

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JIM ABATH, REPORTER: The foreshadowing started in March, archeologists found fragmented human remains on the exposed bottom of Lake Okeechobee. As more and more ground appeared, they found much more.

CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT, ARCHEOLOGIST: We're talking thousands of years of history here, so it's very, very significant.

BOOTS BOYER, ARCHEOLOGICAL HELPER: It's amazing! It's something I've never experienced. I've seen small stuff, but never nothing to this magnitude.

ABATH: Boots Boyer and Palm Beach County archeologist Christian Davenport and his team have found 17 new archeological sites that have never been seen before, all sitting up from the muck. Some with pottery dating back perhaps 2000 years, others to the early 1900s.

DAVENPORT: This is a McCormick spice bottle from Baltimore. You think today, going back, I mean this would have to get on a train in Baltimore, come down, be shipped out to the store and somebody would have to buy it. I mean, a lot of hands touched this bottle to get it to this location.

ABATH: Lately, Davenport and Boyer have had to trek several miles through the muck to re-find the new finds.

DAVENPORT: There's gators everywhere and cottonmouths and bugs, and it's not always that pleasant. But every once in a while you come across one of these sites and it all becomes worth it. ABATH: But the difficulty hasn't stopped looters from getting in on the act. First, it was the history buffs.

BOYER: I think, now, we've got another class in there. The ones out there yesterday, they were from, I think, north Florida somewhere, I think the Panhandle. And that's what they're trying to stop, is people that are experienced in this looting.

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Video Yearbook

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Chapter four of our Video Yearbook: Nuclear proliferation, or the increasing number of nuclear weapons. We're spotlighting two countries today: North Korea and Iran. Mr. Netkovick at Thompson Brook School in Avon, Connecticut, listed North Korea's nuclear testing as one of his class' picks for most important news events. Despite last summer's U.N. resolution demanding that North Korea stop its nuclear weapons program, the Asian country announced a successful underground nuclear test in October. Within days, the U.N. responded by restricting military and luxury goods trade with North Korea. But on February 13th, Pyongyang agreed to shut down its main nuclear reactor in exchange for a $400 million aid package. Talks between North Korea and five other countries, including the U.S., are ongoing.

Meanwhile, Iran pushed ahead with its own nuclear program. Throughout the academic year, the Middle Eastern nation defied international demands to stop developing nuclear technology, and persisted despite U.N. sanctions that were leveled in December. Those sanctions were toughened in March. And on May 23rd, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had actually expanded its nuclear program. International officials are concerned the country is trying to build nuclear weapons, but Iran has repeatedly insisted that its program is for peaceful purposes: specifically, generating electric power. Reporting for your Video Yearbook, I'm Carl Azuz.

G8 Summit

LLOYD: President Bush says a missile defense shield can protect against nuclear weapons, but plans for one are raising tensions between the U.S. and Russia right as their leaders are about to meet. Mr. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders are at the annual G8 summit in Germany at this moment. Climate change and poverty in Africa are at the top of the conference agenda, but the friction between Russia and the U.S. might overshadow the event. Suzanne Malveaux has more.

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN REPORTER: President Bush to Russia's leader Vladimir Putin:

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: The Cold War is over. It ended.

MALVEAUX: The message for Putin: Back off, take it easy. BUSH: As I've told President Putin, Russia is not our enemy.

MALVEAUX: President Bush's comments come after days of heated rhetoric between U.S. and Russian officials. The culmination: Putin's threat to aim Russia's missiles at U.S. military installations and European allies. The fight is over President Bush's plan to build a missile defense system in Russia's backyard, eastern Europe. Putin considers it a threat, but Mr. Bush is trying to convince him otherwise. BUSH: It's a purely defensive measure, aimed not at Russia, but at true threats.

BUSH: My message will be, Vladimir -- I call him, Vladimir -- that you shouldn't fear a missile defense system.

MALVEAUX: And the president offered the Russians a front row seat.

BUSH: Please send your generals over to see how such a system would work. Send your scientists. Let us have the ability to discuss this issue in an open forum where we'll be completely transparent.

MALVEAUX: To get the system up and running, Mr. Bush needs Russia's neighbors to cooperate. One of them is the Czech Republic, where the president wants to set up a radar, a key component of his missile defense system. That drew praise from the Czech president, but protests on the streets.

MALVEAUX: President Bush and Putin's standing among world leaders will be tested at the G8, as both vie for support over apparently competing agendas. on Thursday, the two leaders will meet to confront that. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, Prague, Czech Republic.

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