参考答案：互联网提供了一个令人叹为观止的平台，让我们可以畅所欲言。由于登陆使用互联网相对而言没有太多限制，这种交流形式和国际海域相媲美。我个人相信，只有实现思想的全球化互通，人类的潜能才能得以发挥。数年前，当互联网还未普及时，我已开始致力于这个领域了。互联网具有无限潜能，能够极大推动全球社会向前发展，这使我感到兴奋不已。
但是互联网可能造成的负面影响也使我深感担忧。关于“新信息时代”的话题谈论很多，但互联网造成了网络用户之间的隔阂，从而导致了社会的进一步分裂的报道却不多见。乍一听起来这似乎是矛盾的：某个事物怎么可能既促进思想自由流通而使全球统一，又使参与者疏离呢

解析：[听力原文]
The Internet provides an amazing forum for the free exchange of ideas. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications mode equivalent of international waters. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. I devoted myself to this field years before the Internet came into wide spread use. And I am excited at the potential for the Internet to dramatically alter our global society for the better.
However, I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences. There has been much talk about the "new information age". But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users. At first this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something, that is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants