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  3. The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of

The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of

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问题    The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of the story about The Social Network is just completely made up. But the really interesting thing about this movie is that the story tells a lager truth about Silicon Valley’ s get-rich-quick culture and the kind of people—like Mark Zuckerberg—who thrive in this environment.
   The Valley used to be a place run by scientists and engineers. But now the Valley has become a casino, a place where smart kids arrive hoping to make an easy fortune building companies that seem at least not as serious as old-guard companies.
   The three hottest tech companies today are Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga. Facebook lets you keep in touch with your friends; it will generate about $1.5 billion in revenue this year by bombarding its 500 million members with ads. Twitter is a noisy circus of spats and celebrity watching, and its hapless founders still can’ t figure out how to make money. The biggest of Facebook app-makers, reportedly will rake in $500 million this year by getting people addicted to cheesy games like Farmville and Mafia Wars.
   Meanwhile, among some longtime techies, there’ s a sense that something important has been lost. "The old Silicon Valley was about solving really hard problems, making technical bets. But there’s no real technical bet being made with Facebook or Zynga," says Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft who now runs an invention lab in Seattle. "Today almost everyone in the Valley will tell you there is too much ’me-tooism’, too much looking for a gold rush and not enough people who are looking to solve really hard problems."
   Sure, there are still entrepreneurs and investors chasing serious technology challenges in the Valley. Myhrvold says he means no disrespect to Facebook and Zynga. "What bother me are the millions of wannabes who will follow along, and the expectation that every company ought to be focused on doing really short-term, easy things to achieve giant paydays. I think that’ s unrealistic, and it’s not healthy." What he worries are "the unknown engineers and professors who have good ideas will get funded or will they be talked out of it and told they should do something like Zynga? "
   We’ ve already fallen behind in areas like alternative energy, better batteries, and nanotechnolo-gy. Instead of racing to catch up, we’re buying seeds and garden gnomes on Facebook. This won’t end well.  
We can infer from Paragraph 2 that______.
选项 A、the Valley is no longer the place for hard science and making things
B、the Valley has been converted into a casino
C、making an easy fortune prevails today’ s Silicon Valley
D、semiconductor got its name from Silicon Valley
答案C
解析 根据题干关键词定位到文章第二段。通过原文“现在的硅谷好像一个赌场，人们渴望成立公司一夜暴富，并不再像之前那样追求严肃的科技创新”可推断出，C项“轻松赚取财富在今天的硅谷大行其道”符合题意。A项“硅谷不再是硬科学和创造事物的地方”过于夸大事实。B项“硅谷已经变成了一家赌场”错误，其在原文只是一个比喻，并不是实指。D项“半导体公司得名于硅谷”在原文中并未提及，故本题选C。
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