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英语世界 来源：沪江英语 作者：anecdote 发布时间：2006-07-11
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NASA will have to try again tomorrow. Bad weather forced Mission Control to call off today’s 
(1)___ launch of Discovery at the last minute. NASA will try again tomorrow but bad weather is still on the forecast. This would have been the first shuttle mission in nearly a year.
(2)___(句子听写). It’s the (3)___ attack in Iraq since the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Doctors say Vice President Cheney's pacemaker is working just fine. The 65-year-old VP had a physical today. Cheney has a long history of heart trouble but his physician says the pacemaker has not had (4)___ any irregular heartbeats. And his overall heart condition is stable.
Andre Agassi lost at Wimbledon for the last time. Playing in his fourteenth Wimbledon, the American lost in straight sets to Rafael Nadal. The 36-year-old Agassi could not keep up with the 20-year-old (5)___. Agassi will retire from tennis later this year. He won his first Grand Slam tournament in 1992 when Nadal was 6 years old.
1. scheduled adj.预定的
2. A car bomb ripped through an open-air market in Baghdad today killing at least 66 people, nearly 90 people are injured.
3. bloodiest – bloody adj.血腥的
4. destabilized – destabilize v. 使动摇，使不稳定
5. Spaniard n.西班牙人
