1、This is the VOA Special English Education Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。Students who want an easy way to get information about a large number of colleges in the United States can visit a website like CampusT. It brings together virtual campus tours and interactive maps of more than twelve hundred colleges
2、and universities. The site plans to add an international database for schools in other countries.想轻松获取美国诸多大学信息的学生可以登录CampusT这样的网站，网站结合了1200多所学院和大学的虚拟校园游和互动地图。该网站计划增加其他国家学校的国际数据库。CampusTours recently celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. The president of the company, Chris Carson, was one of the peop
3、le who started the site. He says more than one hundred twenty thousand foreign students use the site each year. They make up more than fifteen percent of the traffic on the site.最近CampusTours庆祝了它们的15周年。该公司总裁克里斯卡森（Chris Carson）是网站创建者之一。他表示，每年有超过12万外国学生使用该网站，占到该网站流量的15%以上。The virtual tours allow stude
4、nts to get a sense of how a college looks. There are also links to official websites and online applications. And there are details like price, number of students, admission requirements and sports programs.虚拟参观让学生们了解大学的概况，还有官方网站和在线申请的链接，还有诸如价格、学生人数、入学要求和体育项目等信息。But Chris Carson says students should
5、 never depend on a third-party website like CampusTours to choose a college. He advises parents and students to contact a school directly. If they plan to visit, they should call the school and talk about the visit and where to stay locally. In fact, he says contacting a school might even lead to a
6、free visit.但卡森表示，学生们不应当依赖像CampusTours这类的第三方网站来选择大学。他建议家长和学生直接联系学校。如果他们计划参观，就应该打电话到学校说起参观，以及到当地在哪逗留。他说，实际上联系学校甚至可能得到免费参观的机会。CHRIS CARSON: In some cases, something that many foreign students dont know if the student is a good enough student or is a special case, they will sometimes pay for travel to g
7、et the student to come to campus. Thats a little known fact.卡森：“有时候，很多外国学生不知道的是，如果这个学生条件够好，或者情况比较特殊，学校会付费来让学生参观，这点很少人知道。”He says showing real interest in a school can increase the chances of being admitted.他说，对一所学校表现出真正的兴趣可以增加被录取的机会。CHRIS CARSON: One thing in the United States is that they often use
8、 something called Demonstrated interest as a factor in your admission. demostrated interest involves the number of time you actually contact institution, and they write all this down in your file, believe it or not. If youve actually participated with them, and engaged them in conversation about the
9、 institution, theyre actually more likely to offer you admission to be institution.卡森：“在美国，学校经常使用所谓的展示兴趣作为录取的一个因素。展示兴趣包括联系学院的次数，他们会将这个记录在案，信不信由你。如果你真的参与，并引起他们讨论该院校的兴趣，他们确实更可能录取你进入该院校。”Chris Carson and several of his friends started CampusTours in nineteen ninety-seven. They noticed that many website
10、s with campus tours were heavy with text and lacked much visual material.卡森和他的几个朋友于1997年创建了CampusTours。他们发现，很多和校园参观有关的网站只有一大堆文字，没有太多的视觉材料。At first, colleges worried that online tours would compete with the tradition of a personal visit to the campus. But today schools work with sites like CampusTours or its competitors, or build their own virtual tours and maps.最初，各院校担心网上之旅会和传统的校园亲身参观相竞争。但如今各学校和CampusTours等网站或它们的竞争对手合作，或者建立自己的虚拟参观和地图。
