Unit 20 New Frontiers Lesson 2

Exercise 2 Listen to the interview with Ananova and answer the questions.

Interviewer: Hi,and welcome to his week's Computer World. To start off... "Good evening.Here is the news." Yes, Ananova, the world's first "virtual" newsreader. She presents the news twenty-fours a day on Ananova.com. And tonight she's in the studio for an interview with us,well,what I mean is, she's here on screen,of course, because she's not real, she's a virtual character-just an image. Is that clear?Ah,another thing, it's not a real interview. What I'm trying to say is that we sent the questions to her programmers beforehand. But she certainly sounds good. Ananova,welcome to the programme.

Ananova: Thank you.

Interviewer: Now, I mentioned your "image". Could you explain how your creators decided what you should look like?

Ananova: Well,it started back in 1999. My creator wanted a human face for their super-fast computer system that delivers real-time news and informantion. So they created me to provide news the moment it happens. I'm the only news reader that can read millions of different stories ot millions of dfferent people simultaneously and on demand.