Reading 3 HW#2

1.       Web address:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_protest_calls

2. Summary:

This new is talking about Chinese people who protest in Beijing and Shanghai. There is a large number of police on the street. They controlled the protested people. Chinese polices have questioned, place under house arrest and detained a lot of people. They took away foreign news phonographers, camers crews and reporters.

3. Vocabulary

squelch

   /skwɛltʃ/ Show Spelled[skwelch] Show IPA

–verb (used with object)

1.

to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.

2.

to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.

com·bi·na·tion

   /ˌkɒm bəˈneɪ ʃən/ Show Spelled[kom-buh-ney-shuh n] Show IPA

–noun

1.

the act of combining or the state of being combined

whis·tle

   /ˈʰwɪs əl, ˈwɪs-/ Show Spelled [hwis-uh l, wis-] Show IPA verb, -tled, -tling, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.

to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.

4. Interesting sentence:

Police seemed to outnumber pedestrians at Wangfujing. Groups of men with earpieces crowded the seats near the window of a KFC outlet scanning the street outside.

5. Question:

Why foreign reporters love report China?