Chinese White Collars Go Down on the Farm The latest craze among China’s white c

Chinese White Collars（白领） Go Down on the Farm

The latest craze among China’s white collarworkers, reported in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, is an onlinevirtual agricultural game called “Happy Farm.” Virtual farmers can visit eachother’s farm, trade livestock and can use real cash to buy virtual (虚拟的) items such as specialtools, quality seeds, and animals. The free game is played through socialnetworking sites like kaixin001.com, Face book or xiaonei.com.

Urban office workers can escape thepressures and stresses of everyday life and enter a peaceful virtual existencewhere players can grow vegetables, practice animal farming and receivesatisfaction that comes with a hard-won harvest. Because most Chinese whitecollars have little amusement after work, Happy Farm gives them a virtual worldto make their dreams come true.

Global Times, an English language dailybased in Beijing, recently reported that there are more than 15 million Chineseurbanites spending more than five hours a day on their virtual “farms.”

According to the English language websiteof the People’s Daily newspaper, the increased interest in farming among someurban office workers has resulted in some of them becoming real hobby farmers,tending small plots of land in their free time. Mr. Liu, a white collar worker,has rented a piece of farmland for RMB 3000. Mr. Liu and his family like todrive down to their farm on the weekend and do different farming tasks such aswatering, weeding, fertilizing and worming. Later on, cabins will be built onagricultural land making it possible for part-time farmers like Mr. Liu to stayon their land for two weeks enabling them to get a little taste of a farmer’slife.

It is a rather interesting socialdevelopment that some of urban office workers are becoming interested infarming and agriculture, while large numbers of farmers and agriculturalworkers continue to move to the cities.

1.What is “Happy Farm”? (No more than 7words)

2.Why do more and more Chinese whitecollars go down on Happy Farm?

(No more than 14 words)

3.List 4 farming tasks Mr. Liu and hisfamily do on their farms. (No more than 5 words)

4.How long do Chinese urbanites spend ontheir virtual farms every day? (No more than 4 words)

试题答案

【答案】

1.An online virtual agricultural game.

2.Because they want to escape the pressureof everyday life./ Because Happy Farm gives them a virtual world to make theirdreams come ture.

3.Watering, weeding, fertilizing andworming.

4.More than 5 hours.

【解析】

1.根据第一段第二行an online virtual agricultural game called “Happy Farm.”

2.根据第二段最后三行。

3.根据第四段5,6两行内容。

4.根据第三段第二行Chinese urbanites spending more than five hours a day