B. Keywords.
redesign, alleviate hunger, ask questions.
Vocabulary.
zip code, alleviate, donate, National Geographic, Hunger Site, United Nations World Food Program, Ask Jeeves Site.
You're going to hear the descriptions of three websites, listen carefully, complete the main features listed.
1. National Geographic, the magazine, has redesigned its website with its new features.
Among them, an opportunity for readers to help choose the magazine's cover, interviews with National Geographic photographers, and lots and lots of pictures.
More pictures in fact than there was room for in the print version.
There's also Zip USA, the feature you can find both online and in print.
It's a focused look at one zip code in the US.
2. Now there's a website created to help alleviate world hunger called the Hunger Site.
Contributions, generated when computer users visit the site on the World Wide Web, are donated to the United Nations World Food Program.
The beauty of the site is that when the web surfer clicks on, they don't pay a penny.
This is Abby Spring, a World Food Program official.
She says that funds to purchase the food come from corporate donors who make a financial contribution each time an individual logs on to Hungersite, that's one word, dot com.
Abby Spring says that so far, thanks to Hungersite dot come, the World Food Program has been able to distribute food valued at approximately 400,000 dollars.
3. The Ask Jeeves Site on the Internet is one of the most useful Internet sites for asking questions in simple English and getting direct answers.
Ask most search engines a question these days and they will return a result which gives thousands of pages for you to search.
The Ask Jeeves Site gives you half a dozen where you can find the exact answer.
The Ask Jeeves Site owners say they have dealt with more than 150 million questions since Ask Jeeves was set up in 1997.
Just this month, people were asking Jeeves the following questions: What are the latest score for baseball?
What is the address of the website for Coca-cocla? Where can I find a list of airfare travel bargains?
Tell me the names of the TOP 20 universities and colleges in the US.
