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According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main co
According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main co
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2011-02-25
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According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008. According to Alexa, the website’s ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in terms of worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 5th. Quantcast ranks the website 15th in U.S. in terms of traffic, and Compete. com ranks it 14th in U.S.
The Internet phenomenon, which boasts 80 million users worldwide, exploded in popularity over the past year as a convenient way for Web users to communicate and share personal details with selected groups of friends or acquaintances. But grammatical errors in the automated messages Facebook uses to personalize pronouns when members share information with their friends have proliferated since the site expanded from English-only into 15 new languages in recent months.
And now, Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as "they" or "themself." "We’ve gotten feedback from translators and users in other countries that translations wind up being too confusing when people have not specified a sex on their profiles," Facebook product manager Naomi Gleit said in a company statement.
In English, when users fail to specify what gender they are, Facebook defaults to some form of the gender neutral, plural pronoun "they." That option is unavailable when the plural is always masculine or feminine in other languages. "People who haven’t selected what sex they are frequently get defaulted to the wrong sex," Gleit wrote.
Unless the gender of the user is clear, Facebook does not know which pronoun to use to notify other members add information to the site. This common English problem is multiplied in languages where masculine and feminine distinctions are grammatically ingrained.
The site will now ask users to specify whether they are male or female on their basic member- ship profile. It will prompt existing users to define themselves. Facebook has an opt-out option for members who choose not to specify their gender or do not consider gender to be clear cut. Members can remove mention of gender from messages about their activities. "We’ve received pushback in the past from groups that find the male/female distinction too limiting," Gleit said.
From the passage, we know that Facebook is now faced with the problem that ______.
选项
A、less and less people are paying visits to it
B、people are cheating about their real gender on it
C、it is difficult to tell whether an user is male or female
D、users are using impropriate language there
答案
C
解析
归纳总结题;在原文的第二段,我们看到Facebook准备强制性地要求用户明确自己的性别,而作者更是通过引用语的方式“when people have not specified a sex on their profiles”来直接点明了网站面对的问题,也就是用户不明确自己的性别这样一个问题,在4个选项中,C选项的表述是正确的。
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考研英语一
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