新视野大学英语(第三版)视听说3 音视频脚本(18)

other people. And we show our paintings, and it’s brought some business for us. It’s a very creative kind of community, and we love it. We really do.

R = Rick

R: There is definitely a community of bloggers. It’s a very 21st-century community, which means no one knows one another personally. Bloggers might tell you their thoughts but, er, you don’t know them as people. The guy who wrote this, who says he’s a 50-year-old American university professor, might be a 16-year-old girl from Bombay - we just don’t know. But the best blogs have

a following, who are very loyal readers. These are people who log on every day. And they get

really engaged in the content. Well, that, to me, is a community.

A = Abbie

A: The website which I use the most is a social networking site. It’s like Facebook or MySpace. I put up pictures of me and my family and I write messages - but to be honest, I use it mostly to keep in touch with frie nds. And the thing that I like is you go onto your friend’s homepage to see what they’ve been doing …and er, well you, you can see pictures of all their friends. And then you see pictures of your friend’s friends, and it grows and grows so you meet new people. Um, I think it’s great. I check it at least once every day.

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BP = Bruce Parry; A = Anutan

BP: My name5s Bruce Parry. I5ve been traveling to some of the world,s most remote places to see how people there live, and how they5re adjusting to a rapidly changing world.

I believe there’s only one way to really understand another culture, and that’s to experience it first-hand, to become, for a short while, one of the tribe.

After four days at sea, we sight a speck of land on the horizon. Half a mile wide, 75 miles from its nearest neighbor. This finally is my first sighting of the island of Anuta.

How do people survive in such an isolated place? And could this really be paradise on Earth? The island of Anuta is surrounded by a shallow reef. So o ur yacht anchors offshore and I’m paddled towards the beach.

Anuta’s one of the Solomon Islands, which used to be under British rule, but even so, I didn’t expect this many people to speak English.

The entire community is here to greet me and I’m told that I must shake hands with each and every one of them.

This really is phenomenal. What a reception. Everyone is out, all smiling, and er, just a really warm feeling. And let’s face it, look around, what an amazing place. I’m in paradise.

A couple of hundred handshakes later and I’m taken to meet the community leaders.

So tell me, what is the protocol? I must go in on my ... very low, on my, on my knees?

I’ve heard it’s customary to greet the chief in the Polynesian way, with a nose kiss. OK. But I don’t kiss him with my lip, just with my nose.

A: Yes, your nose.