参考答案：在亚太经合组织内，教育总是被强调为开拓人力资源和提升成员国能力的所有努力中不可少的一部分。“向社区进军”已经被选为该年的主题。这突出了人力资源开发的重要性，强调了从新经济的动力——技术革命中“创造新的机遇”。
当亚太经合组织教育部长们于2000年4月在新加坡会晤时，他们强调了加强教育和学习的重要性以及在新的世纪里实现终身教育的重要性，他们呼吁建设“21世纪学习社会”。他们意识到了因特网和多媒体所带来的巨大潜力，他们欢迎亚太经合组织成员国们实施诸如多媒体远程教学之类的项目。

解析：[听力原文]
Within APEC, there has always been importance attached to education as an integrated part of overall efforts to develop the human resources and build up the capacity of member economies. "Delivering to the Community" was made the main theme for the year. It underlined the importance on human resource development and emphasized on "Creating New Opportunities" from the technology revolution which is seen as a driving force of the new economy.
APEC Education Ministers, when they met in Singapore in April 2000, emphasized the importance of enhancing teaching and learning and achieving lifelong learning in the new century, and called for building " Learning Societies in the 21st Century". They recognized the vast potential presented by the Internet and multimedia tools and welcome APEC member economies to undertake projects such as Multimedia Distance Learning.