When reality __(1)__ hard to take, there’s an __(2)__ to a parallel universe a virtual world without end __(3)__ real people create online personas called avatars. Anything is possible.
Catherine Smith showed CBS News correspondent Jerry Bowen that her avatar has red hair and big nice cool glasses.
This is my deck__(4)__ the beach, and I’ve got neighbors that have a giant pirate ship, Smith explained.
Smith can’t __(5)__ a beach house in real life. But in Second Life, the online game __(6)__by her employer, Linden Lab, she and nearly 100,000 other subscribers who pay
You can go skydiving and not be afraid of dying; you could become a wild animal, __(7)__ that you could never do in real life, she said.__(8)__ as this may be to believe, there is real money changing hands among the players in these games, Bowen reports. An estimated 6 million a month.
What we have here is a virtual loft of sorts that we created for the artist Regina Spektor, says Ethan Kaplan of Warner Bros. Records, which has set up shop to __(10)__ the pop singer’s music.
Our goal with Second Life is to make it better than real life in a lot of ways, says Phillip Rosedale, Linden Lab’s CEO and founder.
(1)A、get
B、gets
C、is
D、was
(2)A、route
B、way
C、escape
D、retreat
(3)A、that
B、which
C、when
D、where
(4)A、being overlooked
B、overlooking
C、overlooked
D、overlook
(5)A、help
B、getting
C、afford
D、for
(6)A、created
B、invented
C、creating
D、inventing
(7)A、some
B、nothing
C、anything
D、something
(8)A、True
B、Hard
C、Truth
D、Had
(9)A、is
B、was
C、are
D、were
(10)A、publical
B、pub
C、publicize
D、public