VOA慢速英语2011.05.19(1)
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/voa/voa20110519.mp3[/audio]The Morganza Spillway is about seventy-five kilometers upriver from Baton Rouge, the state capital. The spillway is a thirty-two-kilometer-long channel that can take waters from the Mississippi to another river system. （1）__________摩根萨溢洪道位于该州首府巴吞鲁日上游75公里附近。该溢洪道长达32公里，可以将密西西比河的洪水引入另一河流水系。
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers exploded a three-kilometer-wide hole along an earthen levee in Missouri. They did that to protect river towns in two other states, Kentucky and Illinois. But fifty-two thousand hectares of farmland were flooded as a result.
上周，美国陆军工兵部队在密苏里州的土结构防洪堤炸开一个3公里宽的口子。他们这样做的目的是为了保护肯塔基州和伊利诺伊州的沿河城镇。但结果是5,2000公顷农田被淹。
The American insurance industry says (2)_________________________. A record number of tornadoes struck along a path from Texas to Georgia. The storms killed more than two hundred people in six states. At the same time, states like Texas and Oklahoma are experiencing extremely dry weather and high winds that have caused wildfires.
一场创纪录的龙卷风沿德克萨斯州席卷到乔治亚州。这场风暴造成了六个州两百多人丧生。在同一时间，德克萨斯州和俄克拉荷马州等州经历了极端干旱气候，以及由大风造成的森林火灾。
**** Hidden Message ***** 谢谢 :) 1）The spillway was used only once before in nineteen seventy-three
2）natural disasters have already caused $ five billions in damage this year (1)the spillway was used only once before in 1973
(2)natural disasters have already costed five millions dollors in damage this year
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