Seventy members of an Islamist (adj.伊斯蘭（教）的) sect (n.宗派) who have been living in an underground (adj.地下的) bunker (n.地下碉堡) without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade (n.十年) have been discovered living on the outskirts (n.市郊) of the city of Kazan (n.喀山) in Russia (n.俄羅斯), local (adj.本地的) media (n.傳媒) reported.
The sect members included 20 children, the youngest of whom had just turned (v.到達歲數) 18 months. Many of them were born underground (adv.在地下) and had never seen daylight (n.日光) until the prosecutors (n.檢察官) discovered their dwelling (n.住所) on 1 August and sent them for health checks (n.檢查).
The group - known as the "Fayzrahmanist (adj.菲爾扎拉曼的)" sect - was named after its 83-year-old organiser Fayzrahman (n.菲爾扎拉曼) Satarov (n.薩塔羅夫), who declared (v.聲稱) himself a prophet (n.先知) and his house an independent Islamic (adj.伊斯蘭（教）的) state (n.國土), according to a report by state (adj.國營的) TV channel (n.頻道) Vesti (n.新聞).
His followers (n.信徒) were encouraged to read his manuscripts (n.手稿) and most were banned (v.禁止) from leaving their eight-storey (n.樓層) underground bunker which had been dug in the basement (n.地下室) of a building, Vesti said.
Kazan is located (adj.位於……的) 497 miles (n.英里) east of Moscow (n.莫斯科) in Tatarstan (n.韃靼斯坦), a majority (n.大多數) Muslim (adj.伊斯蘭（教）的) internal Russian (adj.俄羅斯的) republic (n.共和國).
(The Independent, August 9)
俄羅斯傳媒報道，喀山市郊發現了一個伊斯蘭教派，七十名信徒在地下碉堡居住了接近十年，一直沒有暖氣或陽光。
教派成員中有二十名兒童，最小的剛滿十八個月大。他們很多都在地下出生，從沒見過日光，直至檢察官八月一日發現他們的住所，並把他們送往接受健康檢查。
國營的“新聞”電視頻道報道，這個組織名叫“菲爾扎拉曼”教派，以八十三歲領袖菲爾扎拉曼．薩塔羅夫命名。他自稱先知，而他的屋子則是一個獨立的伊斯蘭教國土。
“新聞”報道說，他鼓勵信徒閱讀他的手稿；大多數人都禁止離開這座八層高的地下碉堡，它是由一個大廈的地下室挖掘建成。
喀山位於莫斯科以東四百九十七英里，在韃靼斯坦境內，那是俄羅斯內部一個共和國，大多數居民是伊斯蘭教徒。
（英國《獨立報》，八月九日）
閱讀指引
1. sect (n) /sekt/，SECK-t 宗派、教派
解讀：sect與宗教有關，專指一個宗教內的派別，例如Christian / Buddhist sect是基督教／佛教教派，fundamentalist sect是原教旨主義教派；它跟cult有點相似，但cult通常含貶義，而sect卻不一定。
2. bunker (n) /'bΛŋkə/，BUNG-ka 地下碉堡、地堡
解讀：bunker通常都在地下（雖然不是一定），若要強調，便可如文中說underground bunker；此外，concrete bunker是混凝土碉堡，secret bunker是秘密碉堡；此外，bunker尚可指用作貯煤的煤箱或煤艙。
3. outskirts (n) /'aʊtskз:ts/，OUT-skirts 市郊、市鎮的邊緣地帶
解讀：儘管單數outskirt在以前已可指市郊，但此字現時已發展為必須用複數形式outskirts出現；outskirts本身已可指市郊，但有時也會說作city outskirts，或outskirts of the city；當然也可在of後面說出城市名稱。
