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Mr Gong was angry when he found that his 12-year-old child had spent 13 272 yuan playing video games on his mobile phone. Gong made a complaint and required the video game company to return all the money. But it's up in the air so far,Gong told Workers' Daily.
This is not a single case in which children have paid a great deal of money to play online games. The Guangdong Consumer Council(消费者委员会)has received more than 10 000 similar complaints from local parents in the first three months of this year.
Because of the rising number of similar cases,the council talked with many online game companies,strongly suggesting that they should introduce useful ways.
In fact,many online game companies have provided a youth mode(模式),announcing that parents can control the content and limit the time their children spend in using the apps.
However,according to a report by the Jiangsu Consumer Council,some of the protection modes of companies such as Huya,Douyu,Bilibili and Team Talk are far from useful.
For example,users of all of the above companies can extend watching time by entering a password(密码). Team Talk's youth mode is no different from the usual mode,which means that children can watch all the content. Wang Yihan,16,from Fuzhou No. 1 High School,shared her experience. She said,“Some apps would only send a notice to check whether the user is above 18. The user can simply choose ‘Yes’ and start playing the game.”
According to the Guangdong Consumer Council,game companies are being advised to introduce different ways to check who the players are,including fingerprint,password or facial recognition(人脸识别)when children pay to play online games.
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B
)7. From the underlined sentence “it's up in the air so far”,we can guess ______.
A. the company ran out of money then B. Mr Gong hasn't got the money back
C. the money was thrown into the air D. Mr Gong thanked Workers' Daily a lot
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C
)8. The council talked to many companies because ______.
A. they provided a youth mode B. they refused to follow the rules
C. the number of complaints was rising D. Mr Gong wanted to get the money back
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C
)9. What's the meaning of the underlined word “extend” in Paragraph 6?
A. Change the way. B. Improve the quality.
C. Make something longer. D. Cut something shorter.
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)10. The example of Wang Yihan in Paragraph 6 is given to ______.
A. explain how youth mode works B. warn people not to use youth mode
C. teach people how to play games better D. show that youth mode needs improving
