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There's been further rioting in Algeria over food price increases and unemployment, the latest outbreak in several days of unrest. Police have been deployed in force close to mosques and other potential focal points. The government has blamed importers for the cost of some food stuffs and has urged traders to reduce prices. The BBC's North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad reports.

The mainly young Algerians are protesting against the price hikes which saw the cost ofstaplegoods like cooking oil, sugar and flour double in recent months. Algeria's state news agency has also reported on what it described as theransacking of government buildings, bank branches and post offices in other cities to the east of the country. Meanwhile, the Algerian sports minister has cancelled all football matches scheduled for the day.

The Tunisian ambassador to Washington has been summoned to the State Department and told of American concern at the handling of protests in his country. The official urged the Tunisian government to protect civil liberties and called for restraint by all sides. Clashes erupted last month between police and demonstrators protesting about unemployment and restrictions on public freedoms.

President Barack Obama has said a fall in the number of unemployed Americans indicates a more optimistic outlook for the US economy, although more than 9% remain jobless. Referring to new employment figures for the month of December, Mr Obama said the pace of job growth was beginning to pick up.

"The economy added more than 100,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell sharply. And we know these numbers can bounce around from month to month, but the trend is clear. We saw 12 straight months of private sector job growth. That's the first time that's been true since 2006."

Earlier, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, warned it could take five years for unemployment to drop to its usual rate of about 6%.

The Israeli army says four of its soldiers have been wounded in an exchange of fire with Palestinian militants close to the Gaza border. Jon Donnison reports from Ramallah.

The Israeli army is releasing few details but has confirmed that four of its soldiers have been injured. It is relatively unusual for Israeli soldiers to be injured in such exchanges. But in recent weeks, there has been an increase in cross-border violence. Over the past year, the United Nations says more than 70 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli action in Gaza. Over the same period, one Thai farm worker in Israel has been killed by a rocket fired from Palestinian militants.

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked the intelligence services to investigate suspected industrial espionage at the carmaker Renault. The firm has suspended three senior managers for allegedly leaking technical details about the electric cars it's developing. Renault sources say they believe the secrets have been sent to a rival in China.

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The United Nations refugee agency has criticised plans by Greece to build a fence along part of its border with Turkey to keep out illegal immigrants. The agency said a significant proportion of those crossing the frontier were genuine refugees fleeing violence and persecution.

The Czech justice ministry has published a list of judges and prosecutors who used to be members of the Communist Party. The details on the ministry's website show that a fifth of the judges and more than a quarter of prosecutors were members of the party before the collapse of communism.

Colombia has extradited a woman known as The Queen of the Amphetamines to the United States, where she'll face charges of drug trafficking. The woman, Beatriz Elena Henao, was on Interpol's list of its top 10 most wanted women. She's accused of being an international drug dealer. Here's Vanessa Buschschluter.

The authorities say Beatriz Elena Henao was an unusual drug dealer. The 45-year-old political science graduate is accused of being the international face of a Colombian drug gang led by the Comba brothers. Police say her languages - she speaks English, Dutch and German as well as Spanish - gave her unique access to drug markets in the US, Spain and the Netherlands, where she's believed to have sold some 300,000 units of amphetamines. Two of her sons are already in prison, one in Spain for murder, another for drug trafficking in the Netherlands.

And police in Brazil say a football player will be charged for falsely reporting that he'd been kidnapped as an excuse for running late for training. Somalia, a midfielder for Rio de Janeiro club Botafogo, said he'd been abducted at gunpoint just after seven in the morning on his way to the training ground. But police say close circuit television footage from his apartment building showed him leaving late for work at nine in the morning. Botafogo football club threatens its players with a 40% pay cut if they are late for training.

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1.staple n.主要产物,常用品,主食

2.ransack v.抢劫;掠夺

例句：Rioters ransacked the shops.

暴徒洗劫各商店。

3.summon vt.传唤; 召集

例句：The general summoned all his officers.

将军把所有的军官召集在一起。

They summoned men to defend their country.

他们召集男人来保卫国家。

4.bounce vt.vi.弹回; （使）弹起, 弹跳

例句：A rubber ball bounces well.

橡皮球弹力好。

She bounced the ball against the wall.

她把球掷到墙上让它弹回来。

5.espionage n.谍报活动; 间谍行为

例句：They were convicted of espionage.

他们被判有间谍罪。

6.proportion n.部分; 份儿; 份额

例句：A large proportion of the children come to school by bus.

很大一部分儿童乘公共汽车上学。

7.falsely ad.虚伪地,错误地,不实地

例句：The book is falsely fathered on Homer.

这本书被误认为是荷马的著作。

8.outlook n.展望; 前景

例句：The outlook for the economy is bright.

经济前景光明。

1.The government has blamed importers for the cost of some food stuffs and has urged traders to reduce prices.

blame for因…怪罪, 责怪(某人)

例句：Don't keep blaming your little sister for your bad behavior.

不要总是把你的不良行为怪在你的小妹妹身上。

He blamed his brother for breaking the window.

他责备他兄弟打破了窗玻璃。

2.Referring to new employment figures for the month of December, Mr Obama said the pace of job growth was beginning to pick up.

pick up好转; 恢复

例句：When is the weather going to pick up? It's been bad for weeks.

天气什么时候转好?几周来一直很糟糕。

Trade has been slack for the past six months, but it is now picking up.

在过去六个月中贸易一直不景气, 但现在状况正在好转。

3.It is relatively unusual for Israeli soldiers to be injured in such exchanges.

It is adj. of sb. to do sth 与It is adj. for sb. to do sth的区别。

It is adj. of sb. to do sth中的adj.跟sb.有关,

这个adj.是用来形容sb.的,

表示某人这么做真是太adj.了．

你会发现在这个句型中你把sb.和adj.提出来可以造个句sb. is(are) adj.

如It‘s very kind of you to help me.

把里面的sb.和adj.提出来可以发现you are kind是说得通的.

而It is adj. for sb. to do sth表示做某事对某人来说很adj.

这里的adj.是do sth.的属性

里面的sb.跟adj.没有直接联系

如It‘s difficult for you to deal with the problem.

4.The United Nations refugee agency has criticised plans by Greece to build a fence along part of its border with Turkey to keep out illegal immigrants.

to build a fence是动词不定式做后置定语，修饰plans。

在某些句型结构中可用动词不定式作后置定语。例如：

1) I have tons of letters to answer. 我有很多信要回。

2)She needed someone to take care of her baby. 她需要人照看她的婴儿。

3) They were the first to bear hardships, the last to enjoy comforts. 他们吃苦在前，享受在后。

在某些名词后可用动词不定式作定语。 例如:ability, anxiety, attempt, decision, chance, courage, right, determination, promise, ambition, drive, effort, eagerness, failure, inclination, intention, movement, need, opportunity, plan, reason, struggle, time, way, wish等等。例句：

1) Has he the ability to do the work? 他有能力干这项工作吗？

2) I don’t have the courage to tell you the secret. 我没有勇气告诉你那个秘密。