 【慢速VOA】２００８－０５－０５---005
 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.
译文:
谁会想过学习新单词还能够感受社会责任？ 其实,一个叫做freerice的网站，即是一项英文词汇游戏做到了这一点。它这样解释其目的：你每答对一个词，我们就捐赠20粒大米，通过联合国世界食品计划来消灭饥饿。这个网站建于10月份，据说已捐赠了300亿粒大米。当然联合国世界食品计划不是真的得到了大米，捐赠是货币形式的，由广告商来支付，他们的名子以链接的形式出现在游戏下方。个人也可以成为赞助者。游戏呈现单词和4个备选答案，玩家点击最能代表词义的一项。如果选对了，就呈现一个更难得词，如果选错，就出现一个更简单的词。同时还给出单词的发音。目前，免费大米游戏有55关，玩家很少能超过48关。Freerice是否用这个来赚钱？这是网上问得最多的问题之一。答案是否定的，该网站是非营利性质的。
posted on 2008-05-05 15:37
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