1、听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。 【免费英语听力下载】 - 1 -CNN news:龙卷风侵袭达拉斯造成严重破坏 降低大学成本有妙招First up, severe weather in the Dallas, Texas area, separate tornadoes touched down there yesterday afternoon.Officials urged people to take cover and they had good reason. It is a little hard to see clearly beca
2、use the clouds from the storms made it so dark, but youre going to see a large object right there in the middle of the red circle. That thing flying around is a tractor trailer . And its not the only one. Several trailers flying around in this video. The tornado picked them up and tossed them all ov
3、er the place like they were just toys.Reports also indicated widespread damage to homes and other building in the area. All flights at the Dalls Fort Worth Airport were grounded. Passengers and airport employees were moved into shelters. Yesterday afternoon officials were trying to figure out just h
4、ow much damage had been caused.1144 delegates, that is the finish line in this years race for the Republican presidential nomination. On Monday,former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had the most delegates. There were more up for grabs on Tuesday.Maryland and Washington D.C. held primary election
5、s. So did Wisconsin and that state was the big prize yesterday.42 delegates all going to the candidate that got the most votes. Governor Romney sounded confident heading into Tuesdays contests.It feels better and better. The support for my campaign is growing stronger and stronger. And this was an u
6、phill battle for me. If you looked back three or four weeks ago and now were looking like were going to win this thing.Former Senator Rick Santorum, who has the second most delegates among Republican candidates says the race isnt over. Hes looking ahead.The month of May is rich with delegates and ar
7、e strong states for us. Those are the states that we know we can get this back, right back to where it is right now, which is a lot closer than what Mitt Romney and the pundits are spinning. Its a very close race. And by the end of May, we expect this race to be , to be very close to even.听力课堂,开放式英语
8、学习平台！www.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。 【免费英语听力下载】 - 2 -Go to the Spotlight section on our homepage, and click on the CNN Election Center for results from Tuesdays primaries. They came in after we produced todays show.Todays Shoutout goes out to Ms. Jones classes at Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina
9、. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner gave a famous speech called Ive been to the Mountaintop? Was it Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama,Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King Jr.? Youve got three seconds, go.Ive been to the Mountaintop was the title of Martin Luther King Jr.s final speech. Thats your answer an
10、d thats your Shoutout.Dr. King made that speech in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968. In the speech, he talked about the fight for equality saying, quote, Ive seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.King
11、s words turned out to be prophetic . He was assassinated less than 24 hours later. Martin Luther King Jr. was 39 years old when he died. His work with the U.S. civil rights movement earned him that Nobel Peace Prize. When he won it in 1964, he was the youngest person ever to get one. There are event
12、s planned all around the U.S. today,the anniversary of his death to honor Dr. King and his legacy.Shifting gears now, when you apply to college, the first question is usually, Will I get in? For a lot of students and their families, the next question is: How will I pay for it?. You could apply for s
13、cholarships and loans, but Christine Romans talked with a journalist who has some tips on how to cut costs on campus.More than $22,000 is what youll need to attend an average public college this year. At private colleges, the average asking price is twice that. Where are you going to come up with al
14、l that money?The April issue of Money magazine uncovered 25 secrets to pay for college. Kim Clark is the senior writer at Money who co-wrote the story.Kim, you say that kids can not cut living expenses. They can take 听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。 【免费英语听力下载】 - 3 -cheaper courses. These are t
15、wo important ways to cut costs.Right, well, when you look at that $22,000 number, people dont realize that about $9,000 or $10,000 of that, thats living costs. Thats a great way to cut your expenses. And one way to do that, for example, is to ask for maybe less ritzy dorms. The standard dorm is you
16、know shared with one other person. But if you ask to triple up or quadruple up, you can save $1,000, $2,000. Another way is to do some chores. There are coops and scholarship houses where you work four, five hours a week and you save huge amounts of money. The schorlarship houses around the Universi
17、ty of Florida, they say cost only $2,000 a year for room and board. And thats a $6,000 a year savings.And you can take cheaper courses. How do you do that?Right. A lot of schools are offering discount tuition on summer school and of course you can get your prepared out of the way by taking AP classe
18、s or community college courses.Thats really good advice, since we know that 40% of kids who get to school, get to college still need some remedial math or English.Right, community college.Do that first so youre not wasting the money on the more expensive course. Right. Correct.For Smart is the New Rich, Im Christine Romans.
