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In early 1994, when Mark Andreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an idea that would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he and his friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed people to share information on the World Wide Web.
1994年初，馬克·安德森只有23歲，他帶著可能會改變世界的想法來到了硅谷。在伊利諾伊大學上學時，他和他的朋友們開發了一個名為Mosaic的程序，這個程序使人們可以在萬維網上共享信息。
Before Mosaic, the Web had been used mainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to send and receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends had developed a program which could send images over the Web as well. Mosaic was an overnight success. It was put on the university's network at the beginning of 1993. And by the end of the year, it had over a million users.
在Mosaic出現之前，使用萬維網的主要是科學家和一些技術人員，他們喜歡用萬維網發送和接收信息。有了Mosaic之后，安德森和他的朋友們開發了可以在萬維網上傳送圖片的程序。Mosaic一夜成名。Mosaic在1993年初發布在伊利諾伊大學網站。截至1993年底，Mosaic的用戶已經超過100萬人。
Soon after, Andreessen went to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started to have meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley's most famous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from the Internet which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen an opportunity that would make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they should create a new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be much easier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas and enthusiasm impressed him greatly.
不久之后，安德森前往硅谷尋求發展。他到硅谷以后，就和吉姆·克拉克見了面，吉姆·克拉克是當時硅谷最成功的企業家之一。1994年，互聯網發展緩慢，難以使用，所以沒有人能通過互聯網掙錢。但是安德森看到了能使他和克拉克在兩年內發財的機會。他建議他們創造一個和Mosaic原理一樣的新電腦程序，而新程序要便于使用。克拉克仔細地聽了安德森的建議，安德森的想法和熱情令他印象極為深刻。
Eventually, Clark agreed to invest three million dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra 15 million from venture capitalists who were always keen to listen to Clark's new ideas.
最后，克拉克同意自掏腰包，在這個項目中投入300萬美元，并從一直對克拉克想法感興趣的風險投資家那里募集1500萬美元。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
問題19到問題21依據你剛剛聽到的短文進行提問。
Questions 19. What do we learn about Mosaic?
問題19. 我們了解到Mosaic的什么情況？
Questions 20. What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?
問題20. 安德森到硅谷以后做了什么？
Questions 21. Why were venture capitalists willing to join in Clark's investment?
問題21. 為什么風險投資家愿意和克拉克一起投資？
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