Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK, around half the population. Joanna Shields, vice president of Facebook Europe, made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London.
Globally, Facebook has more than 500 million registered （注册的） users, a milestone it hit last summer. Last July it had 26 million registered UK users. In the last eight months, it has attracted four million extra UK users, bringing the UK total to 30 million.
Facebook, the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg while he was still studying at Harvard University, was launched in February 2004. The pace of its global growth has sped rapidly - Facebook had only 150 million registered users in January 2009.
One third of women aged between 18 to 34 check Facebook when they first wake up, before even going to the toilet, according to the research. 21% check Facebook in the middle of the night, while 42% of the same group think it is fine to post drunken photos of themselves onto the social network, a study by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research found.
Shields was speaking this morning at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference about the power Facebook’s referrals （好友推荐）can bring to media sites, such as newspapers and TV services. She explained that the average Facebook user has 130 friends who they share links to media sites with regularly. “Media panies which take advantage of that are really seeing the benefits,” Shields said. Shields refused to be drawn on whether Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system and also said it was “silly” that Google had recently disabled the feature which allowed Google users to refresh their contacts with Facebook friends.
【小题1】Eight months ago the number of registered users of Facebook in UK was about . A．less than half of its populationB．30 millionC．4 millionD．500 million【小题2】Shields talked at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conferences about the following EXCEPT . A．Facebook’s referralsB．its plan on developing its own mobile phone operating systemC．its dissatisfaction with GoogleD．its call for more media sites to take advantage of Facebook【小题3】What does the underlined word “disabled” mean in the last paragraph?A．InventedB．StrengthenedC．AddedD．Stopped【小题4】What is the best title of the text?A．Facebook’s referrals bring benefitsB．Facebook: the brainchild of Mark ZuckergergC．Facebook: used by half the UK populationD．Facebook: women’s preferenceA
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解析：这篇文章是一篇新闻报道，内容关于Facebook公布英国现在有三千万人在使用Facebook，以及它带来的影响。
【小题1】推理题：根据第二段中“Last July it had 26 million registered UK users”去年七月是2600万英国用户，根据第一段内容可知英国有6000万人口，因此还不到英国人口的一半。故选A。
【小题2】细节题：根据最后一段中“Shields refused to be drawn on whether Facebook would develop its own mobile phone operating system”希尔兹拒绝透露Facebook是否会开发自己的手机操作系统，可知B项错误。故选B。
【小题3】推理题：划线部分“also said it was “silly” that Google had recently disabled the feature which allowed Google users to refresh their contacts with Facebook friends.”Google最近宣布取消同步更新facebook好友清单的功能，对此希尔兹回应说此举“不明智”。“disable”禁用，四项中只有“stop”与之相近。故选D。
【小题4】主旨题：阅读全文可知文章是关于Facebook公布英国现在有三千万人在使用Facebook，以及它带来的影响。故选C。