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1、CNN英语听力2012年02月合辑（文本+翻译）：20120209Hi, Im Carl Azuz, broadcasting from the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We welcome all of our viewers around the world to the first February edition of CNN Student News.Were leading things off today in Florida, with the race for the Republican presidential nomination
2、. Three states held primary or caucus events earlier last month, and a different candidate won each contest. So some experts were looking to see if the Florida primary would bring some clarity to the Republican field.The goal of these primaries and caucuses is to win delegates. You need 1,044 of the
3、m this year to be the RepublicanPartys nominee for president. There were 50 delegates up for grabs in Florida, and yesterdays primary was winner-take-all. You win the primary, you get all 50 delegates.Representative Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum moved on to campaign in other states, beca
4、use they didnt think they had much chance of winning Florida. That left former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.As the results came in last night, CNN projected that Mitt Romney would win the Florida primary.C is where you can always get the latest details on
5、 developing stories, like yesterdays Florida primary. The full results came in after we produced this show. But you can find them. Theyre going to be in the Spotlight section on our home page.Were staying in Florida now to talk about a series of car crashes that happened along a major highway over t
6、he weekend. At least 12 cars and seven tractor-trailers were involved in these accidents. You can see some of what happened in the pictures were showing you right here.The highway was covered in smoke from a nearby brush fire. That made it very difficult for drivers to see. Ten people were killed in
7、 the wrecks. More than 12 other people were taken to hospitals.Chad Myers spoke with CNNs Anderson Cooper about why the smoke was covering the highway. They also talked about the conditions that led to these crashes over the weekend. Have a listen.There was a fire in the swamp and in the forest, onl
8、y 60 acres, not that big. But in a regular fire, smoke goes up and keeps going up. But in Florida, it didnt keep going up. The reason why is because there was a layer of warm air up here. So as soon as the smoke tried to go up, it hit the layer of warm air and came back down. Its called inversion.Th
9、e most famous inversion ever was in Donora, Pennsylvania, many, many years ago where people died because they suffocated from the smoke that just wouldnt leave the valley.Thats the Allegheny-Monongahela Valley near Pittsburgh Im talking about, but thats what happened. The smoke was trapped near the
10、surface. It couldnt go away. People drove into the smoke and they were hitting cars that were already stopped in the roadway.And a lot of survivors, I mean, they were saying the smoke and fog was so thick, they couldnt see - you know, a woman said they couldnt even see the hazards. This isnt that co
11、mmon, though, is it?It is not. What happened here, this smoke and fog got in a bowl, this bowl is just south of Gainesville. Ive driven through this bowl many times on I-75, its the prairie right through here. Literally, it looks like youre driving through the Serengeti.You look to the left and you
12、look to the right, and its completely flat, but all around you are hills. When you drive this, youre literally - - you look for giraffes, because you think youre in Africa. It looks crazy, high elevations here. High elevations there.And right through there, its kind of a swampy area. And that air, t
13、hat smoke settled right into that low area, into the bottom of that bowl and thats what caused the visibility down to literally zero.And I guess, one thing investigators will be looking into, is could this have been avoided? I mean, should there have been warnings or road closures?Well, Anderson, th
14、ere were road closures. The roads were closed for three hours, and then the smoke kind of cleared,because the wind blew just a little bit. But then half an hour after they re- opened the road, the crashes happened and 10 people died.So I guess, you have to think the road probably should have stayed
15、closed. Theres not much you can do. Once you are in this smoke, you are in it.February 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month. Its a time to honor the accomplishments and contributions of African-Americans. When Dr. Carter G. Woodson started the tradition in 1926, it was a week long. The cel
16、ebration was expanded into a month in 1976 by President Gerald Ford.Throughout our coverage of Black History Month, were going to focus on some of the people, the places, the moments that have been significant in African-American history. Were starting with a lunch counter and an event that happened 52 years ago today.Thats when four black college stu
