Here's a scene:a village where the sun always shines.crops always grow and your

Here's a scene：avillage where the sun always shines，crops always grow andyour friends drop by to sweep your yard to the sound of guitar music．Animalsdo what they are told，there is no disease，andlendin’ folks a helpin’hand makes you richer and wiser．Welcometo FarmVille—

Current population 69mand rising fast．

 “It reminds me ofmy childhood，”says one player, Lia Curran，37，anurse from London．“Right now I'm growing wheat and flowers. I'vegot a small garden, and I'm raising some chickens and some cows. I like havingthe animals. It's relaxing.” Curran's animals, however, is nothing more than acollection of cartoons. FarmVille is an online computer game built into thesocial networking site Facebook and is described by its players as “addictive”.Launched last June by Zynga Game Network, FarmVille now has many players—morethan the population of the UK. The players are largely women over the age of35.

FarmVille unites theworlds of social networking and gaming．Players are given aground with six fields，“cash”，a few seeds and aplough and have to build up wealth，skills and neighborsto create bigger，better，richer farms．Invitingyour online friends to play means you earn more and get flee gifts；yourise rapidly through the first levels but，once hooked，haveto work harder and harder with no final level or goal in sight．

“Games like this drawpeople into a fantasy world that's separate from real life where there are noissues，and where things are simple and controllable，”Brian Dudley says．In November，he opened the UK'sfirst computer games addiction clinic，treating onlinegamers who stayed at the keyboard for up to eight hours a day—“the tip of theiceberg”，he says．Two weeks ago，agroup of US players launched a class action against Zynga and Facebook．“Most，ifnot all，of the online advertisements presented throughZynga are scams(骗局)，”the lawsuit states．“Theadvertisements are highly misleading and often result in users ordering goodsor services that they do not want or need．”

According to NickO'neill from the social media site All Facebook，Zynga is making$500，000(￡304，000)a day，fromits Facebook games，in turn spending some $50m(￡30m)ayear on Facebook ads．

If all that weren'tenough，FarmVille doesn't even function like a proper farm：inFarmVille，wheat grows in two days—in real life，ittakes months．But play continues nevertheless．

68．Ifyou want to create a better and richer farm，you should do thefollowing EXCEPT that   ____．

A．youhave to work harder and harder

B．youshould pay real—world money to advance in the game

C．youshould invite your online friends and neighbors to play

D．youshould develop your skills and befriend FarmVille neighbors

69．Whichof the following statements is TRUE?

A．Mostyoung girls are fascinated by the farming game．

B．MoneyZynga has made is mostly spent on advertising campaign．

C．Thereis potential threat to the players and some players are misled by theadvertisements．

D．TheUK's first computer games addiction clinic was opened to help treat onlineplayers．

70．Thepurpose of the class action against Zynga and Facebook was to_____．

A．showthat Zynga has an extremely tight relationship with Facebook

B．tryto stop Zynga and Facebook from putting advertisements

C．attractmore people to FarmVille game to plant crops

D．appealto the public to order more goods or services

试题答案

【答案】

 B

 C

 B

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