Question

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A.A website. B.A social problem. C.An advertisement.

2.How does the FreeRice game help end hunger?

A.By buying food. B.By giving money. C.By donating rice.

3.How many levels of difficulty does the FreeRice game have?

A.20. B.48. C.55.

4.What is the biggest danger the World Food Program has faced?

A.Transportation is in bad condition.

B.The advertisers stop paying for food.

C.The cost to secure food aid has increased a lot.

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

【解析】

【原文】

W: Whoever thought learning new words could feel socially responsible? A website called FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game. It explains its purpose like this:”For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Program to help end hunger.”

Internet businessman John Breen created FreeRice in October. The United Nations World Food Program does not really get rice. The donations are given in the form of money. Advertisers whose names appear with the links at the bottom of the game pay for the rice.

Words are presented with four choices of answers. Players click on the one that best explains the word. Now, the FreeRice game has fifty-five levels of difficulty. Players rarely get past level forty-eight.

Jennifer Parmelee is a World Food Program spokeswoman in Washington. She says cash donations help the agency to buy food locally and transport it quickly to where it is needed.

Over the last nine months, though, the cost to secure food aid has increased fifty-five percent. Jennifer Parmelee says this is the biggest danger the World Food Program has faced in its forty-year history. She says creative projects like FreeRice are badly needed right now.