CNN 2012-03-01

 Today,we are talking about political primaries，a matriculation milestone¹ and a musical mentor².We are beginning in the state of Ohio.

Residents and officials in the city of Chardon are trying to make sense of a shooting are a high school there.One student was killed in the attack, four others were wounded.According to reports,the suspected gunman is also a student at the school.He was arrested yesterday.As students ran from the shooting,some of them use their cellphones to call police,or text their parents to let them know they were OK.A lot of schools practise what to do in these types of situations.They run drills for shootings,or natural disasters and one student at Chardon High,said he thinks what happened yesterday, could have been even worse if it wasn't for that preparation.

 

 

I think,that's what really helped keep it at a minimum of what it was,as bad as it was already.I think it could have been a lot worse, if we didn't do the drills,that we, that they had us to do.

 

 

Jumping now to the presidential campaign trail.It's been a few weeks since the last Republic contest but two states are taking over the political spotlight³ today and those two states are Arizona and Michigan.Voters are heading to the polls there,casting their ballots⁴ for Republican presidential candidates,Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt⁵ Romney,former Senator Rick Santorum,former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul.They are trying to win delegates in these primaries and caucus⁶.Win enough?And you get the party's nomination⁷ for president.There are fifty-nine delegates up for grabs today in Arizona and Michigan.

 

 

One issue comes up a lot during presidential campaign is education.According to a new report from US Census⁸ Bureau,the country just marked a educational milestone has to do with how many Americans have a college degree.In March of last year,30% of adults,who are at least 25 years old,had a degree.Back in 1998,it was less than 25%.The director of the Census Bureau called this "an important milestone",saying the more education people have,the more likely they are to have a job and earn more money.

According to another Census report,workers with a bachelor's degree earn around 2000 dollars more on average than workers with high school diploma.

 

 

Today's Shout Out goes out to Ms. McElroy's social studies classes at Hilton Head Christian⁹ Academy in Hilton Head,South Carolina.

 

 

Which of these places divided by the 38th parallel?

Is this Bering Strait,Korean Peninsula,Aleutian Islands or Marianas

Trench¹⁰

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You've got three seconds.Go.The parallel at 38 degree north latitude¹¹ divides north and south Korea.That's your answer and that's your Shout Out.

 

 

When those countries fought against each other in the Korean War,the United States was on the side of the south and the United States are South Korea are still alliances.They are both the target of harsh words from North Korea right now.That is because of military drills,like the one you see right here.The US and South Korea are running joint¹² operations right now.They are working together but North Korea says the drills are designed to provoke them and officials from the North say, they are ready to fight a war against South Korea and the US.North Korea's relationships with

other countries have been uncertain since long-time leader Kim Jong-il died in December.

 

 

But part of tention surrounding North Korea has to do with its nuclear program.Similar situations in Iran,you've heard us talk about sanctions,penalties,put on Iran by the US and the United Nations.The goal of those sanctions was to get Iran to stop its nuclear activities.Matthew Chance has more on the tension between Iran and international community.

 

 

What Iran says very clearly that it is not building a nuclear bomb.It says that it's never done any research into building a nuclear bombing.It says that all of its nuclear activities are directed towards purely¹³ peaceful purposes.

 

 

The trouble is,that it's, it's not many people in the international communities believe Iran.They do believe there's evidence to suggest that in the past,they may have conducted some research which would be relevant to making nuclear bomb.

 

 

What we know is that it certainly doesn't have a nuclear weapon.

 

 

I mean that's one thing to make absolutely clear.But it does have is the ability to enrich uranium.Uranium is the substance which is needed to fuel nuclear reactors¹⁴ and if you enrich even more,it's the substance that you need to create nuclear bomb.Iran has been enriching this uranium for years now as has every right to do.Because it's, say,a member of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.It's allowed under that treaty to enrich uranium but the trouble is,in the past it's not disclosed some of its activities to the international community.And why there's such a lack of trust with Iran at the moment.

 

 

What the IAEA is the UN's nuclear watchdog agency,it's the independent body,which has,you know a whole range of nations,that are members including Iran,that inspects nuclear facilities not just in Iran but allover the world.There are a lot of questions that the IAEA has that Iran has not answered.For instance,it wants access the UN does to search suspicious nuclear sites that it suspects may have been the location where nuclear weapons testing,may have been carried out or developments for those weapons may have been carried out and, so there are lots of areas,lots of gaps in Iran's story that it has yet to fill out.

1 milestone   

n.里程碑；划时代的事件

参考例句：

• The film proved to be a milestone in the history of cinema.事实证明这部影片是电影史上的一个里程碑。
• I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。

2 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

3 spotlight   

n.公众注意的中心，聚光灯，探照灯，视听，注意，醒目

参考例句：

• This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
• The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。

4 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

6 caucus   

n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议

参考例句：

• This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
• It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。

7 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

8 census   

n.(官方的)人口调查，人口普查

参考例句：

• A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
• The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。

9 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

10 trench   

n./v.(挖)沟，(挖)战壕

参考例句：

• The soldiers recaptured their trench.兵士夺回了战壕。
• The troops received orders to trench the outpost.部队接到命令在前哨周围筑壕加强防卫。

11 latitude   

n.纬度，行动或言论的自由(范围)，(pl.)地区

参考例句：

• The latitude of the island is 20 degrees south.该岛的纬度是南纬20度。
• The two cities are at approximately the same latitude.这两个城市差不多位于同一纬度上。

12 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

13 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

14 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。