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19 一个新的美国自愿者组织成立
DATE=3-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #810 - GeekCorps
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 57")A (1)volunteer is a person who (2)provides services without being paid. People volunteer as a way to help others. A new American volunteer organization is sending information technology experts to share their skills with people in developing countries. The group calls itself "GeekCorps." ek" is an American slang word. It (3)describes someone who is an expert in computers and technology. GeekCorps says it is giving such people a chance to help change the world. GeekCorps is based on a forty-year-old American (4)government program called the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps sends volunteers to help people in developing countries.
Ethan Zuckerman is the chief official of GeekCorps. Mister Zuckerman says the organization wants to teach the world about the Internet World Wide Web and how to use it. He says GeekCorps is looking for people who have (5)experience with information technology and want to spend three months working with small businesses in developing countries.
These volunteers are trained at the GeekCorps (6)headquarters in North Adams, Massachusetts. The ten-day training teaches volunteers about understanding people in another (7)culture. The volunteers learn how to teach their skills to other people. They also learn about the country they will be working in.
Eight volunteers went to Ghana in January. Three are Americans. Two are Dutch, one is Canadian, one is Danish and one is French. It is the second group to volunteer in (8)Ghana. The volunteers teach people in Ghana how to use computers and the World Wide Web to improve their (9)businesses.
GeekCorps wants to expand its activities in Ghana and in other African countries. Ethan Zuckerman says he would like to have twenty volunteers working in Ghana at the same time. He says GeekCorps also has plans to send volunteers to (10)Latin America later this year.
To learn more about GeekCorps, use a computer to visit its web (11)site. The address is www.geekcorps.org.
篮球运动的规则
DATE=3-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #810 - Basketball B
YLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 4'32")Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from China. The listener asks about the sport of basketball.
Organized basketball (12)involves two teams of five players each. The players score points by throwing a large round ball into a raised goal called a basket. One basket is at each end of the playing area, or court. Players may move the ball toward the basket only by (13)bouncing it on the floor or passing it to another team member. Each team also tries to prevent the other team from scoring. The team that scores the most points is the winner.
James Naismith invented the game of basketball in Eighteen-Ninety-One. He was a (14)physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts. He wanted to create a team sport that could be played indoors during the winter.
People immediately enjoyed basketball's (15)excitement and fast action. In just a few years, both men and women were playing basketball at schools and sports centers throughout North America. It became so popular that people started paying money to watch basketball games. American soldiers took the game to Europe during World War One.
In Nineteen-Thirty-Six, basketball became part of the competition at the Olympic Games. About the same time, college basketball was becoming a (16)major national sport in the United States. The best college players went on to play for (17)professional teams.
That is still true today. Hundreds of American colleges and (18)universities have men's and women's basketball teams. The National (19)Collegiate Athletic (20)Association is a group of colleges and universities that takes part in organized sports programs.
The N-C-A-A men's (21)championship is decided by a series of games played at the end of the season. This series takes place in the month of March and is known as "March Madness." The number of teams was expanded this year from sixty-four to sixty-five.
They will continue to play until one team has won all its games and is (22)declared the champion. "March Madness" this year began last week. It will continue until the final game is played in (23)Minneapolis, Minnesota on April second.
奥斯卡提名歌曲
DATE=3-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #810 - Oscar (24)Nominated Songs
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 8'05")People who make movies will be honored Sunday in Los Angeles, California. That is when the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its yearly awards, the Oscars. The movie industry will honor the best work of (25)directors, actors, technical experts and songwriters.
ANNCR:
Five songs were nominated for the Oscar for the best song written for a movie last year. One is from a (26)funny movie called "Meet The Parents". The song is "A Fool In Love", performed by Randy Newman.
((CUT 1: A FOOL IN LOVE))
The second nominee for best song is "I've Seen It All" from "Dancer In The Dark." The third is "A Love Before Time" from the Taiwanese film, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It is performed here by Coco Lee. Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello.
((CUT 2: A LOVE BEFORE TIME))
The fourth nominee for best song is "My Funny Friend and Me" from the (27)cartoon movie "The Emperor's New Groove".
We leave you with the final nominee for best song written for a movie last year. Bob Dylan sings "Things Have Changed" from the movie "Wonder Boys."
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(23) Minneapolis[ 7mini5ApElis ]明尼阿波利斯(美国城市)
(24) nominate[ 5nCmineit ]vt.提名, 推荐, 任命, 命名
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(27) cartoon[ kB:5tu:n ]n.(报刊上的)政治性漫画, 讽刺画, 卡通画, 漫画(常有解说词)v.画漫
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