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Border closes for migrants  對移民關閉邊境

Wildfires in California  美國加利福尼亞洲森林大火

Crisis for world's oceans  世界海洋面臨的危機

文字稿

Large crowds of frustrated, exhausted people are spending the night at the Serbian border with Hungary, where Hungarian authorities have completed a new razor wire fence and closed off unofficial crossing points. Thousands have been making the journey every day, trying to enter the European Union.

大量沮喪、疲憊的人群的在塞爾維亞和匈牙利交界邊境地帶過夜。匈牙利當局已經搭建完成一個新鐵絲網柵欄并關閉了非官方的過境點。每天都有數千人踏上旅程，試圖進入歐盟。

In California this is the sound of summer – they call it the 'valley fire' and no one here can remember anything like it. It has already consumed an area twice the size of San Francisco, and still it burns.

在美國加州，這就是夏天的聲音，那里的人們稱之為“火谷”。這里沒有誰能記得類似場景的發生。森林大火已經吞噬了相當于舊金山面積大小兩倍的地區，而且火勢不減，仍在燃燒。

The ocean is on the brink of collapse, according to a WWF report released today. The study into the health and habitats of marine species has found that populations more or less halved between 1970 and 2012. Reports say the declines may be steepest in the fish we need for the global food supply.

根據世界自然基金會今天發布的報告，海洋瀕臨崩潰的邊緣。一項有關海洋物種的健康和棲息地的研究發現在1970年和2012年之間海洋物種數量幾乎減少了一半。報道稱，數量下降幅度最大的正是我們用來供應全球的食用魚類。

詞匯

frustrated 感到沮喪的

spending the night 過夜

consumed (此處) 吞噬，毀壞了

on the brink of 瀕臨，處于…邊緣

練習

請從以下詞匯中選擇適當的答案來完成句子。注意：你可能需要改變單詞的時態來完成句子。

frustrated / spending the night / consumed / on the brink of

1. The huge tidal wave _______ much of the beach and the village behind it.

2. Since I've had kids, I find it so _______ that I can't go out to the pub any more.

3. Scientists are _______ discovering a cure for certain types of cancer.

4. Because we missed our connecting flight, we had to _______ at the airport.

答案

1. The huge tidal wave consumed much of the beach and the village behind it.

2. Since I've had kids, I find it so frustrating that I can't go out to the pub any more.

3. Scientists are on the brink of discovering a cure for certain types of cancer.

4. Because we missed our connecting flight, we had to spend the night at the airport.