2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Network Designer TIM BERNERS-LEE

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　　1.What is the hidden Rosebud of cyberspace according to the sperker? A ...
called 'Enquire within Upon Everything'.
        　　2.What is the difference between Lee's invention and many other ones? Lee's
invention truly was ...
        　　3.What has Lee fought to keep the program like? To keep it ...
,non-proprietory, ...
        　　Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to
the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British
spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire"
about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davisson for sale in
Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to
computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act
but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking
shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company
that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and
bolts from "the Bolt Boys" in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York.
Exotic cigar labels! Four-poster beds for dogs! So what, you say? Everybody
knows that with a mouse, a modem and access to the Internet, these days you can
point-and-click anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or
long-distance phone tariffs. Ah, but scroll down the list far enough, hundreds
of entries deep, and you'll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: "Enquire
Within Upon Everything"--a nifty little computer program written nearly 20 years
ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee. Who knew then that
from this modest hack would flow the civilization-altering,
millionaire-spawning, information suck-hole known as the World Wide Web? Unlike
so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work
of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of
people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the
transistor, but two of his research scientists actually built it. And if there
ever was a thing that was made by committee, the Internet--with its protocols
and packet switching--is it. But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He
designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought
to keep it open, nonproprietary and free.