【答案解析】Automaker"s Internet site. [听力原文]
You are driving down the freeway and something goes wrong with the engine of your car. Before you even realize there is a problem, the car has sent an e-mail detailing the trouble to the automaker"s Internet site. The website figures out where the closest dealer is and sends a message there, and employees check the stockroom for the necessary parts and schedule a meeting with a mechanic. By the time an e-mail arrives at your dashboard computer alerting you to the fault, you are presented with the solution as well.
In addition to owners of personal computers, anyone with a car, mobile phone, personal digital assistant or TV will be connected to the Internet. Not to mention those wearing tennis shoes. In the future, microchips in running shoes will monitor the body"s vital signs. "In 20 years" time it will be odd for something not to be on the network," says Bill Joy, chief scientist and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems.
Between now and 2005, personalized services will become commonplace; business and economy-class Web services will be introduced, and consumers will take control of their digital identities. Not only will the Net support a variety of new access devices, but it will also become the primary vehicle for voice, data and video transmission. Already, a group of communication giants, including AT&T, has formed an alliance called Embedded Internet, which aims to accelerate the market for globally networked, intelligent devices in homes, offices and factories worldwide.
Putting everything and everyone on the Net will open up new commercial opportunities. For example, when you visit a new place with your mobile device—knowing your preferences will automatically suggest that the restaurants serve your favorite wines and foods, list the shows you might like to see, then provide you with maps for how to get there. While you are stuck on the highway, a cyberspace services broker would be able to electronically arrange for a tow truck to pick you up and order a rental car to be waiting at the dealership. Hewlett Packard"s new services electronically links up buyers and sellers who have had no prior contact and may want to do business with each other only once.
Overall, it is going to become much easier for people to communicate over the Net. Communicating with others in real time will soon be a norm. Real time multilingual communications means that people will be able to ask a question of a company"s customer service department, for example, in whatever language they feel comfortable, and the message will be routed to the most knowledgeable person in the firm regardless of where they are and what language they speak.

【答案解析】Anyone.

【答案解析】Monitor body"s signs.

【答案解析】Accelerate markets.

【答案解析】Cyberspace services broker.