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英语专四听力高频新闻用词 专四对于天灾人祸的兴趣是很浓的，基本每年都有。大家需要注意的核心是：death toll（死亡人数），the injured（受伤人数），the missing（失踪人数），casualty（伤亡人数）以及cause（起因）和route（路线） 空难 air crash：2009-3-23 A FedEx cargo plane（货机）, crash-lands（迫降）, at Japans Narita International Airport（日本成田国际机场）.. Red Cross officials say both pilots were killed. Television footage showed the plane explode, shortly after one of its wings, clipped the ground. Reports say the flight from Guangzhou, China, was trying to land in windy conditions. 海难 ferry sink 2009-1-11 An Indonesian ferry carrying 250 passengers and 17crew sank after being battered by a large wave in bad weather in the countrys east on Sunday, officials said. 18 people including one of the crew had been rescued, said Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for the Transport Ministry. Transport Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal said 150 people had been taken off the ferry, but their condition was unknown and he gave no further details. The discrepancy（差别） in the number of possible survivors could not immediately be clarified. 海难的考点很灵活。可以是自然原因引起的，比如storm, wave, typhoon, 内因也可以为超载-overload，或者常考的非法移民illegal immigrant事件。值得注意的是，05、06、07在连续考察海难新闻。 偷渡 illegal emigrants 2008-4 About 150 illegal immigrants have drowned after their boat sank off the Libyan shore while en route to Italy. Most of the illegal immigrants died after the boat capsized in the Mediterranean on June 7. The Libyan authorities have recovered 40 bodies but its difficult to identify them. 火车脱轨 train derail 2008-4-29 Chinese railway authorities confirmed that the death toll is at least 70 after an early Monday train collision in east Chinas Shandong Province. More than 400 passengers were hospitalized including 4 foreigners. When the accident occurred, the rear part of the train from Beijing, coded T195 derailed and hit train 5034 from Yantai, and caused the front part of the latter train to derail, too. Initial investigation （初步调查）says the accident was caused by human error. Two railway officials have been sack