News Item 5
Moscow Metro Explosion May Have Been Accidental，Say Investigators Bill Gasperini Moscow
Vocabulary：
1.metro n. subway or the underground railway system 地鐵
2.bandit n. robber, one of an armed group (eg of brigands attacking travelers in forests or mountains, or today, banks and offices 土匪
3.denounce adj. speak publicly against or give information against 公開指責；揭發
4.notorious adj. widely known especially for something bad 臭名昭著的；著名的
5.warlord n. great military leader in a specific region 軍閥
5. wreckage n. material or fragments 殘骸；碎片
Step One Try to answer the following questions in your own words as clearly as possible.
1.How many people were killed and how many were wounded in the Moscow subway bombing on Friday?
2.What did Moscow mayor announce in order to guarantee the security of the capital?
3.Which political organization should be responsible for the explosion on Friday morning, according to president Vladimir Putin?
4.What did the investigator say concerning the cause of explosion?
5.Is there any group that claimed responsibility for the attack?
6.Can you say something about Mr. Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev?
7.What day has been declared a day of mourning for the victims of the bombing?
Step Two Complete the following blanks with the exact words of the news.
1.Russia’s security____says it still has no____in the Moscow subway bombing on Friday that killed 39 people and wounded more than 100. Security has been____at all stations in Moscow, as well as on all____leading into Russia’s capital city.
2.Within hours of the ____ subway explosion Friday morning, President Vladimir Putin said he was____ it was the work of what he called “ ____ and terrorists ” from Chechnya. ____bombing incidents in recent years have been________by Chechens.
3.Some investigators picking through the ____of the destroyed subway car say they have notout the possibility that the explosion might have been ____.
4.Spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko of the____Security Service says there are no firm leads onin the case. He says some form of____ material might have gone off ____while being____on the train.
5.The Chechen leader has also never____ control over all Chechen rebel commanders,especially the most____warlord，Shamil Basayev. Mr. Basayev has claimed____for previous attacks including several____ bombings.
Notes ：
1.Chechnya：車臣共和國位於俄羅斯聯邦西南部高加索山脈的北側，南麵與格魯吉亞隔山為鄰，北同俄羅斯的斯塔夫羅波爾邊疆區接壤。車臣占據的地理位置具有重要的戰略意義，它連接著俄羅斯同南高加索三個共和國的石油管道和鐵路幹線。車臣共和國有人口120多萬，民族以穆斯林族為主，信奉伊斯蘭教。首府：格羅茲尼。車臣人素以英勇善戰著稱，民族意識極強。在19世紀上半葉，沙俄把車臣並入沙俄帝國 版圖。在蘇維埃政權時代，車臣自治區於1922年11月30日成立，屬俄羅斯聯邦。 1991年“8 ? 19”事件後，杜達耶夫於同年9月6日推翻了當地的蘇維埃政權，一個月後當選為車臣總統。1991年11月，車臣宣布成立獨立的共和國，杜達耶夫任總統，一采取與俄羅斯政府對抗的行為。車臣危機給俄政治、經濟、社會帶來了長期影響。
2.Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov announced that registration procedures for all people traveling into the capital will be “powerfully strengthened ” and directed at foreigners as well as people from Chechnya and the Caucasus Mountain region.
譯文：莫斯科市長魯資科夫宣布說，對進入首都的登記程序將會進一步強化，它主要 針對外國人、車臣人以及高加索山區的人。
3.Mr. Maskhadov was elected president of Chechnya in 1997 but has been in hiding, probably somewhere in the mountains of Chechnya, since Mr. Putin launched the latest war there two years later.
譯文：馬斯卡多夫在1997年被選舉為車臣總統，但自從普金總統兩年以前發起最近 的戰爭以來，他一直躲藏在車臣山區的某個地方。