[ti:Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.00]This is What's Trending Today... [00:03.60]Who wants to be a billionaire? [00:06.81]For a $2 ticket, people have a chance to win [00:11.46]the Mega Millions record-breaking lottery jackpot of $1.6 billion. [00:20.50]The drawing is on Tuesday night in the United States. [00:25.36]People also have a chance at winning the Powerball jackpot, [00:30.77]which is now up to $620 million. [00:35.18]That drawing will be on Wednesday night. [00:38.81]Mega Millions is a lottery game played in 44 American states [00:45.32]as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [00:51.27]The winning ticket must match six numbers, from 1 to 70. [00:57.31]Several states permit online ticket purchases. [01:01.59]Out-of-state or overseas purchases are not permitted. [01:07.26]The first Mega Millions drawing was on May 17, 2002. [01:13.92]That winner received a jackpot of $28 million [01:19.20]– a small amount compared to this week's jackpot. [01:24.21]The most recent Mega Millions drawing on October 19 [01:29.33]was for a jackpot of $1 billion dollars. [01:33.67]But no one won. [01:35.73]It was the 25th drawing in a row that did not result in a winner. [01:42.34]About 280 million tickets were sold for the October 19 drawing. [01:49.58]Those tickets covered 60 percent of all possible number combinations. [01:56.45]So, what are your chances of winning the $1.6-billion jackpot this time? [02:03.97]Very, very small. [02:07.08]The financial website The Motley Fool says the chance [02:11.68]of someone winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302,575,350. [02:23.80]The chance is a little better with the Powerball. [02:27.74]It is 1 in 292,201,338. [02:35.95]You are more likely to get struck by lightning [02:39.66]than win the jackpot, at least in the United States. [02:44.20]The National Weather Service says a person [02:47.67]has about a 1 in a million chance of getting hit. [02:51.78]You are much more likely to get accepted to Harvard University. [02:57.65]The Ivy League school accepted 5 percent [03:01.73]of its 39,000 applicants for its 2021 class. [03:08.16]That is a 1 in 20 chance. [03:10.74]Americans even have a better chance at becoming president [03:15.76]than they do at winning this week's jackpot. [03:19.73]The U.S. population is about 326 million. [03:25.08]There are about 10 presidents in an average lifetime. [03:29.78]So, a person's chances at becoming president are 1 in 32.6 million. [03:38.20]However, the U.S. Constitution requires [03:41.51]that a person be at least 35 years old [03:45.88]and a "natural born citizen" to be elected president. [03:50.13]And that's What's Trending Today. [03:52.46]I'm Ashley Thompson. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM