高级听力 Unit 14 Part 1

作者介绍了她如何使用互联网，怎么使用。

An Occasional User of the Internet

F: Well, I’m only an occasional user of the Internet because I don’t have a connection myself and I use it for finding answers or finding pieces of information. I’m a great collector of information, for people ask me things and I always see this as a challenge, so for years I’ve always written in my diary: “Things to find out : Who wrote this” or something, and I go off to the university library and look things up, and now I find it much quicker to find a lot of information on the Internet.

M: I mean, do you use the Internet in the university library?

F: Yes. They’ve got at the moment ten terminals and it’s free because the university, like all universities, is permanently connected to a network, Janet it’s called, and that is connected to the Internet or part of the Internet, should I say.

M: Right. OK. What are some of the most interesting or curious places that you’ve come across while exploring?

F: Well, I think the most interesting places are always the ones that you’ve just found that day. In fact, I was in the university library this morning because the husband of a friend of mine wanted to learn how to surf. And he was particularly interested in Andrew Marvell, the English poet. So we looked up Marvell. Well, I looked up Marvell instead of Andrew Marvell and the first five sites were some electronics company in California called Marvell Electronics. But what did I find today? Oh, yes, we also looked up some English language pages for English language schools and there was one which had a lot of competition where they had flags of different countries and you had to identify the country and obviously it meant writing the country correctly in English and out of ten we only got one right, which was Estonia.

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