【慢速VOA】２００８－０５－０５---005号
Learning Words, Donating Rice (1/2)
Who ever though learning new words will feel socially responsible.A website call Freerice.com is an English vocabulary game.It explains its purposes like this,for each word you get right we donate 20 grains of rice through the UN Food Program to help end hunger.The site began in Oct,it says 30,000,000,000 grains of rice have been donated so far.The United Nation's world food program does not really get rice.The donations are given in the form of money.Advertisers whose names with links at the bottom of the game pay for the rice.Individuals can also become sponsors.World are presented with 4 choices of answers.Players click on one that best defines the words.If they anwser correctly they get a harder word,if they choose wrong,they get an easy word.Spoken pronounciaions are also provided.Curently the Freerice game has 55 levels of difficulty.Players really get passed level 48.Does threerice make any money from this?That is one of the frequently asked questions on the site.No,it does not,Freerice runs the site at no profit,says the answer.
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posted on 2008-05-05 15:15
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