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听力课堂,开放式外语学习平台！TingC 声明：本资料由 听力课堂网站收集整理，仅供英语爱好者学习使用，资料版权属于原作者。 - PAGE 1 - 密西西比河水位增涨 First up, the Mississippi River is going up, and experts think it could come close to a record. The National Weather Service predicts that the rivers waters will crest -- reach their highest point -- just after midnight on Tuesday. Officials predict a water level of 48 feet; thats just short of the record set back in 1937. Of course, the problem with the river being so high is that all that water has to go somewhere. Right now, its flooding parts of several states in the Midwest and Southeast. You see them on this map: Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. This is what things looked like in parts of Tennessee over the weekend. Hundreds of people have been told to leave their homes, especially if they live in low-lying areas. One mayor said hes asking residents to be calm and helpful as his community prepares for what could be a large-scale disaster. “ 美国失业率报告 The unemployment rate looks at the number of people who dont have a job, but who are actively looking for one. Thats why some economists say it can actually be a good thing when the unemployment rate goes up, like it did last month, from 8.8 percent to 9 percent. Their argument is if the rate goes up, it means unemployed people who werent looking for a job feel more encouraged that they might find one, so they start looking. Other economists disagree. They point to the fact that the percentage of working Americans -- the number of people who were already in the workforce -- went down last month. That might indicate that the unemployment rate went up because people lost their jobs.