VOA慢速英语2012 Education Report - Touring Colleges, Without Ever Leaving Home
时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:2012年VOA慢速英语(九)月
Education Report - Touring Colleges, Without Ever Leaving Home
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Students who want an easy way to get information about a large number of colleges in the United States can visit a website like CampusTours.com. It brings together virtual 2 campus 1 tours and interactive 3 maps of more than twelve hundred colleges and universities. The site plans to add an international database 4 for schools in other countries.
CampusTours recently celebrated 5 its fifteenth anniversary 6. The president of the company, Chris Carson, was one of the people who started the site. He says more than one hundred twenty thousand foreign students use the site each year. They make up more than fifteen percent of the traffic on the site.
The virtual tours allow students to get a sense of how a college looks. There are also links to official websites and online applications. And there are details like price, number of students, admission 7 requirements and sports programs.
But Chris Carson says students should never depend on a third-party website like CampusTours to choose a college. He advises parents and students to contact a school directly. If they plan to visit, they should call the school and talk about the visit and where to stay locally. In fact, he says contacting a school might even lead to a free visit.
CHRIS CARSON: "In some cases, if the student is a good enough student or is a special case, they will sometimes pay for travel to get the student to come to campus. That's a little known fact."
He says showing real interest in a school can increase the chances of being admitted.
CHRIS CARSON: "One thing in the United States is that they often use something called 'demonstrated 8 interest' as a factor in your admission. They write this stuff 9 in your file, believe it or not. If you've engaged them in conversation about the institution, they're actually more likely to offer you admission."
Chris Carson and several of his friends started CampusTours in nineteen ninety-seven. They noticed that many websites with campus tours were heavy with text and lacked much visual material.
At first, colleges worried that online tours would compete with the tradition of a personal visit to the campus. But today schools work with sites like CampusTours or its competitors, or build their own virtual tours and maps.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. You can improve your English and learn more about higher education in the United States at our website, www.voanews.cn. I'm Dave DeForest.
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Contributing: Matthew Hilburn, Ira Mellman and Jerilyn Watson
- They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
- The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。
- This reply is a virtual acceptance of our offer.这一回答实质上是接受了我们的建议。
- At that time the East India Company was the virtual ruler of Bengal.那时东印度公司是孟加拉的实际统治者。
- The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
- This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。
- I discovered some new information in the database.我在资料库里发现了一些新信息。
- We planned to build an online database.我们计划建一个联机数据库。
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
- Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。
- We attached a condition to his admission to our school.我们对准许他入校附加了一个条件。
- By her own admission,she was responsible for the accident.她自己承认,事故应该由她负责。
- All of those demonstrated the correctness of his analysis. 这一切都证明了他分析的正确性。
- The fireman demonstrated great courage in saving the child. 那位消防队员在抢救孩子的过程中,表现了极大的勇气。