Lately, I’ve been traveling around the world. No longer am I waking up far away from my home, tired from a late night of writing down the stories I collected the day before. Things are different now, 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, and I listen to the radio.
The radio station is always from somewhere that isn’t here in New York, and most often it comes from a free-to-use website called Radio Garden. Move your mouse and maybe you will land in Bujumbura, Burundi; in Dibrugarh, India; or on the edge of the South Pacific. Seemingly no matter how large or small the broadcaster is, if it sends out a signal online, it can appear on the site and you can listen to it.
During the pandemic, Radio Garden, which is now available as an app, at times attracted as many as 15 million monthly listeners. “We received many heartwarming emails from people stuck at home expressing their gratitude for the service,” said Jonathan Puckey, the site’s founder.
Radio Garden began as a project of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, where designers and computer programmers overlaid (覆盖) station streams with their geographical locations on a 3-D map of the world. As a result, there is more than one way to transmit. Visiting a country like Colombia brought back memories of past trips - - romantic accordion music reminding me of bus rides on the rural roads.
Where will you visit first on the Radio Garden globe? For me, thrilling as it is to drop in on Ouagadougou or Ulaanbaatar or the Azores, it’s all about personal history: I was born and raised in New York, but my family is from everywhere—Latin America, the Middle East, and places in between. My ancestors were merchants who traded in goods and cultures. Now, because of their wanderings, pieces of six languages still fly across our dinner tables. Thanks to Radio Garden, my family can cross planes of space and time without worry!
4. What does the first paragraph focus on?
A.The joys of radio travel. | B.A scene of traveling by radio. |
C.A popular way of traveling. | D.The difference in this travel. |
5. What do we know about Radio Garden?
A.It is affordable. | B.It is widely accepted. |
C.It is easy to maintain. | D.It is based in New York. |
6. What does the author think is the greatest advantage of Radio Garden?
A.Simplifying travel schedules. | B.Making tourism popular again. |
C.Improving the traveling experience. | D.Promoting the virtual reality travel. |
7. What does the last paragraph imply?
A.Radio Garden is expanding quickly. |
B.Radio Garden increases global connections. |
C.Radio Garden benefits from global awareness. |
D.Radio Garden facilitates the development of tourism. |