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山东大学研究生英语网络课程 新闻英语2 第三单元(完整免费版) 第一部分 准备阶段 ??1.Exercise 1: Listen to this passage and decide whether the following statements are true or false, write T for true and F for false. EU Opens Online Library ??? Call it the 21st century version of the famous Alexandria library that served as a hub of knowledge in ancient times. Europe is offering a similar trove of information via the Internet - allowing users to access tens of thousands of paintings, books, manuscripts, sound recordings, newspapers and other items from across the European Union.??? European Commission spokesman Martyn Selmayr says the Europeana digital library is planning to expand enormously in the years to come.??? Today is just the beginning, he said. We have two million objects today on Europeana - cultural objects which exist in digital form. Our objective is to have by the year 2010, 10 million digitized objects available from all over Europe and they will be offered in 23 languages so everybody around the world has access to these cultural heritages of the European Union member states.??? That includes digitalized representations of masterpieces from the Louvre museum in Paris or manuscripts of composers like Beethoven - or books from libraries around Europe - although only a small fraction of the regions 2.5 billion books will be available online in the coming years.??? The project is one way to showcase the European Union - this time through its cultural heritage.??? On the one side it shows that Europe is made up not of a single unified culture but that it has 27 nations and each one of them has a very long history, said Selmayr. It also shows what we have in common and gives the perspective of the neighbors. ??? For example, thats very interesting to see that the fall of the Berlin Wall - very important for German history and also for European history - is something you can find on Europeana in the form of a film that is today stored in the French national audiovisual institute. So