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The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Face-book. 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 Face-book. 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 Far-mville 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.
What Myhrvold worries about the Silicon Valley is_____.
选项 A、how to get sufficient entrepreneurs and investors
B、everyone in the Valley hardly looks for a gold rush
C、Facebook or Zynga makes lots of technical bets
D、a sense of solving really hard problems is declining
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到文中第四、五段。第四段的第二句话指出：硅谷应该切 实解决复杂的问题，实现技术方面的巨大进步，然而Facebook或者Zynga主营的业务并没 有太多的技术进步包含其中。反而越来越多地纷纷效仿Facebook或者Zynga，将技术创新 抛诸脑后。故D项“解决难题的能力正在下降”与上述分析相符。A项“如何获得足够的企 业家和投资者”、B项“硅谷的每个人都不追求淘金热”和C项“Facebook或Zynga进行了 大量技术押注”均不是Myhrvold担心的内容，不符合题意，故选D。
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