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说明类阅读理解练习和解析 　　文章难度：★★★★☆ 词数：375 建议阅读时间：5分钟 　　Many people use Facebook to stay in touch with their friends and family. Now, a lot of those Facebook users find themselves doing more than just sharing pictures and posting status updates. Games such as Mafia Wars and FarmVille have brought people together in virtual worlds, where they carry out Mafia jobs or tend farms. Not only do these games engage （占去某人的全部时间和注意力） the players in front of the computer, they also make millions of dollars for the creators of the games. 　　Most Facebook games follow a standard pattern. In Mafia Wars, gamers become the boss of a virtual Mafia family and start job tiers from New York to make virtual money to purchase weapons and properties. To gain experience points (XP) and reach the next level, the players could either master jobs or fight with other Mafia families. Moreover, they obtain a Daily Chance lottery ticket to gain some random items from the collection or bigger prizes. 　　Meanwhile, FarmVille lets players set up a virtual farm, where they grow crops and raise livestock(家畜) to earn more virtual coins. Farmer players gain XPs to reach an upper level and expand their farms by having more neighbors, coins and cash. All of these games incessantly promote themselves to players by asking them to notify friends of their recent achievements and offering daily gifts to invite more potential players from your list of friends to join the games. In the end, many players are unconscious of becoming fully addicted to the online social games. 　　If players use up all of their virtual money, these games offer the option of using real money to buy more. In Mafia Wars, ＄5 buys 21 Godfather Reward Points, which might seem like a good deal for the player, but it really ends up being a genuine goldmine for Zynga, the maker of Mafia Wars. In 2009, Zynga earned close to ＄250 million, mostly through the small purchases that players make while using games like Mafia Wars and FarmVille. 　　Facebook g