时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(二)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


This week, we visit four Web sites where students can learn about higher education in the United States.


Cappex.com -- c-a-p-p-e-x -- matches students with colleges and universities. Students create a profile about themselves and their interests. The site then suggests ten to twenty schools.


But Cappex President Chris Long says that there are no guarantees of admission. The site is free to students. Cappex sells advertising 1 on the site to schools and companies.


CollegeClickTV.com has thirty thousand videos of students answering questions about their schools.


GIRL: "I would recommend honestly taking Statistics 263 with Professor Alexander. He's absolutely wonderful, the class is a great class to take and I really enjoy it."
SECOND GIRL: "I chose this school because it's in the city and it's really great and the communication school is actually, I think, ranked in the top five?"
BOY: "Yeah."
SECOND GIRL: "It varies every year but it's ranked really high. And all the colleges. And you get like a really great, well-rounded education. And the kids are really cool. You meet really fun people."
BOY: "I came here because I didn't get into NYU."


Schools pay CollegeClickTV to come on campus. But founder 2 and president Glenn Pere says schools do not approve or reject any comments. That does not mean the site will use whatever students say; Glenn Pere says they must give reasons for their opinions.


Zinch.com has video profiles produced by students themselves. Co-founder Sid Kromenhoek says it is a place where students can show their abilities and talents. The company says more than six hundred colleges pay to use the site to search for students. More than five hundred thousand high school students have profiles on the site.


Finally, we come to Unigo.com. Unigo offers college reviews, videos and other content created by students. Features include "unofficial campus tours" and advice for dealing 3 with the recession -- oh, and of course, dating on campus.


The free site, supported by ads, has a team of full-time 4 editors. The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder. Jordan Goldman says the site is starting with two hundred fifty of America's top colleges and will add more.


Unigo, Zinch, CollegeClickTV and Cappex are just some of the sites for college searches on the Web. Others include MyCollegeOptions, CheckMyCampus and PrincetonReview.


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Our Foreign Student Series continues next week. The series is online at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.



1 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
2 Founder
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
3 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • 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。
4 full-time
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
学英语单词
account payables
acquired immune deficiency syndromes
adaptive line enhancer
amatea
aneidess
as slick as a whistle
assets revaluation law
Bac Son
balling-iron
bartle freres
base camps
be soaked through
biotite polzenite
boat neck,boat neckline
capital of Swaziland
caprea
cash contract
certificate for cargo gear
Cheremnykhite
church organs
closeout
codon
common polypodies
continuous current electromotor
coralla
dead end clamp
decimate
deterministic case
Dischidia
dodaro
double engine plane
egg-flip
el aabde (el abde)
electron-coupled oscillator
flabellospora irregularis
floating-point indicator
flow-measurement integration
fluorocarbon film
formal calculus
genus Cola
gun-shier
haertel
heading blasting
homilete
hour counter additional intermediate wheel
inner arm
inrolls
interactive graphic
interval contacts
ion strength
ion well
Jamaica sorrel
jobclubs
kid around
lapping switch
lattanzi
Lerrain
lithium dichromate
logged onto
makeup valve
meristem culture
most-favo(u)red reinsurance clause
Mungindi
muscle of incisure of helix
nanoscales
non-propelled craft
ODINSUP
omening
optical mixing phase conjugation
outside butt strap
pervibrator
pilow
pinyin
plane of living
proactive aggression
pustule
quadrature phase subcarrier signal
quasi-proprietary
reacting weight
report of disclaimer of opinion
resident unit
restriction of import
retrosternal
ski club
skyrise
snub
Somasian
sonali
spectrophysics
technical code
Telecom Tower
test-drove
tie-back stub liner
tonic accent
tvga
two-way mixed tricot
ureosmotic animal
Vila Seca
wall paper music
Y network
ye'se