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初中英语Project Seeks Free E-Books for Colleges in Developing Nations 一项旨在为发展中国家的大学提供免费电子书的计划 asf听力文件无病毒，请放心打开 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. 这里是美国之音特别英语《发展报道》节目。 Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks for students in developing countries. 书是高等教育中很高的一笔花费。但是全球教科书项目希望为发展中国家的学生们创建一个拥有1，000本电子书的免费图书馆。 The aim is to offer subjects that students may take in their first few years at a university. The books could be printed or read on a computer or copied onto a CD or DVD. 免费图书馆的宗旨是为那些刚进入大学几年的学生提供课程用书。这些书可以打印出来或是在计算机上阅读，或者拷贝在CD或DVD上。 Two professors in the United States are leading the Global Text Project. 有两位美国的教授带头这项全球教科书计划。 Richard Watson is the acting head of the department of management information systems at the University of Georgia. And Donald McCubbrey is a professor of information technology and electronic commerce at the University of Denver, in Colorado. 理查德·沃森是佐治亚大学管理信息系统的系主任。唐纳德·麦居贝利是科罗拉多州丹佛大学信息技术和电子商务专业的教授。 Professor Watson tells us that the idea for this project goes back several years. He was teaching a computer programming class but did not have a good textbook. So he asked his students to each write part of a book that he would organize and edit. 沃森教授告诉我们对于这个项目的想法要追溯到几年前。他教授计算机编程课，但却没有一本很好的教科书。所以，他要求学生每人编写书的一部分，由他来对这本书进行组织和编辑。 By the end of the term, Professor Watson had a finished product. Since then he has used it for other classes. Now, Professors Watson and McCubbrey are seeking volunteers to supervise the creation of books for the library. They are looking for professors or other professionals. 到了期末，沃森教授完成了这本书。自那时起，他就用那本书给别的班级上课。现在，沃森和麦居贝利这两位教授正在寻找志愿者来管理图书馆的图书制作。他们希望有教授或者其他专业人员参与这个项目。 The Global Text Project is similar in technology to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the Internet. But only one or two people will be able to make the final edits in texts. 教科书计划在技术上和维基百科相似，维基百科是任何人都可以在网上编辑的免费的百科全书。但只有一两个人能确