美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-01

 A raising rate, a tagging tourist and a rollicking roll --a ll coming up today's show. We start with the branches of the US government. The legislated¹ branch, Congress make the laws, but the it's the judicial² branches' job to interpret those laws and decide if they violate the constitution. US Supreme³ Court session start in Octorber over several months, the nine justices hear arguments in dozens of cases. They do legal research, vote on the cases and write down their opinions. When all of that's finished, the Supreme Court makes its rulings public, usually around this time every year.

Athena Jones gives us some preview of the possible rulings for some of this seesion's cases.

--From now until the end of June, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on big issues affirmative action and same sex marriage.

It's almost unimaginable the number of things the Supreme Court's gonna decide that affect all the Americans in the next month.

First up could be whether public schools can consider a raise when it admitting students. Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas arguing she was rejected because she was white.

I hope the court rules that student race and ethnicity should not be considered when it applied⁴ to the University of Texas.

The school says race is one of many factors it uses to achieve diversity on campus. Court watchers say Anthony Kennedy could sign with a conservative justices to overturn or limit a major Supreme Court decision from 10 years ago that allowed affirmative action.

The justices are also dealing⁵ with another hot spot issue: same sex marriage.

--From the &&&&& country, there marriges are between one man and one woman. You guys don't want to accep it.

Considering whether California's proposition eight ban is constitutional, and in a second case, if the defense⁶ marriage act can deny same sex couple, the same federal benifits as heterosexual ones.

--I think it's gonna be good.

That case was brought by Edith Windsor, a New York woman who had to pay higher state taxes after her wife died then someone in an heterosexual marriage would have.

--I think it's likely in the defense marriage act case that the Supreme Court will invalidate the federal law that says we won't recognize state same sex marriages, but in the Califonia proposition 8 cases the justices just seem unlikely to require under the constitution every stage to recognize same sex marriage. The ruling may not be a huge gay rights victory at all, but I doubt it's gonna be a significant lose either.

Another case involves the kind of genetic⁷ testing that let actress Angelina Julie to undergo a double mastectomy. The court is considering whether human genes⁸ so-called products of nature, can be patented. Athena Jones CNN Washington.

Our next story today. There different ways to pay for college, one is to take out the student loan. Those come with interests, the fee that you have to pay back with the loan. Interests rates tell you how much that fee is. Seven million, or one third of US college students who had loans had subsidized loans. That means the government pay some of their interests. 6 years ago, the interest rate on federal loan were 6.8 percent, then Congress cut that in half. So these borrows wouldn't have to pay much interest. But on July 1st, the interest rate on subsidize loans are set back to where it was before, Congress and the president don't want that happen but they can't agree on a new plan. Nothing happens the rate for these loans will automatically go up, and students who have them will owe more money when they get out of school.

When Chelesa Fearce starts college in the fall, should technically⁹ be a junior. Her time of high school was all about achieving despite adversity.

--I just open my book in darkness, use the cellphone light just do what I like to do and tell myself don't worry about that, think about now, the future will never like I think.

Most of her high school years, Chelesa and her family were homeless, they lived in shelters, sometimes they lived in their car. Chelesa stayed focus on her education, her SAT score made her a star student at school, her GPA made her valedictorian. And the high school graduate has some advice for anyone else who might be facing challenges.

--Don't give up, do just the right to do right now so you can get the future that you wanna.

Chelesa's story is a great example of the power of perseverance¹⁰. We wanna here yours, go to our bog¹¹ CNN Student News.com tell us about the time when you overcome a challenge. We're looking forward your post, but remember we're only looking for your first names.

1 legislated   

v.立法，制定法律( legislate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Congress has legislated a new minimum wage for workers. 国会制定了一项新的关于工人最低工资的法律。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Most member countries have already legislated against excessive overtime. 大多数成员国均已立法禁止超时加班。 来自辞典例句

2 judicial   

adj.司法的，法庭的，审判的，明断的，公正的

参考例句：

• He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
• Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。

3 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

4 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

5 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

8 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪

9 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

10 perseverance   

n.坚持不懈，不屈不挠

参考例句：

• It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
• Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。

11 bog   

n.沼泽；室...陷入泥淖

参考例句：

• We were able to pass him a rope before the bog sucked him under.我们终于得以在沼泽把他吞没前把绳子扔给他。
• The path goes across an area of bog.这条小路穿过一片沼泽。