Travel around the world by radio

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Lately,I've been traveling around the world.And each day my travels begin like this:I sit down at my dining table, usually early in the morning or late at night when nobody else is awake,with a cup of tea,and I listen to the radio.The radio station is always from some?where that is not here in New York,and most often it comes from Radio Garden.

This free?to?use website would be almost indistinguishable from other websites if it were not for the thousands of little green dots.Each dot is one of the local radio stations around the world,streaming live.

Move your mouse and maybe you'll land in Bu?jumbura,at the edge of Norway's Arctic or on the edge of the South Pacific.Seemingly,no matter how large or small the broadcaster is—and no matter how urban or remote the location is—it can appear on the site, and you can listen in.

There is hardly anything easier or more intimate (溫馨的) than listening to live radio.During the pandemic,Radio Garden has flourished,drawing as many as 15 million monthly listeners.“We received lots of heart?warming emails from people stuck at home expressing their gratitude for the service,”says Jonathan Puckey,the site's founder.

When I first showed my grandparents that they could scan the radio from Argentina—where my grandfather and grandmother were born, their thoughts turned to vivid memories of easier days.“Sometimes I hear tangos that I haven't heard in a very, very long time,”Grandfather says.“It makes me happy.I sing along, and the words just come back.Listen?ing to them reminds me of my childhood.”

Indeed, the radio is a comforting reminder of the sounds that shape our worlds, the soundtracks of our lives, no matter where we live.Perhaps the most spellbinding aspect of the Radio Garden site is its ability to bring us to the most distant places, allowing us to ex?perience those communities that we've always wanted to visit but,for whatever reason,never could.

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1.What can we know about Radio Garden?

A.It is a radio program about gardens. B.It is located in New York.

C.It is a website free of charge. D.It involves dots of different colors.

2.The underlined word“flourished”in paragraph 4 can be replaced by“______”.

A.developed quickly B.grown healthily

C.decreased sharply D.changed suddenly

3.How does the author's grandfather feel about Radio Garden?

A.Tolerant. B.Positive. C.Indifferent. D.Curious.

4.What's the last paragraph mainly about?

A.Sounds of the world. B.The meaning of life.

C.Benefits of the Internet. D.Advantages of the website.

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be indistinguishable from 與……無法區分

listen in 收聽廣播節目

express gratitude for 對……表達感激

remind sb of 使某人想起……

bring us to the most distant places 帶我們去最遙遠的地方