课时作业（十八）选择性必修第一册 Unit 2 Looking into the Future-【学易优】2024年高考英语一轮总复习课时分层突破（人教版）

课时作业 课时作业（十八）选择性必修第一册 Unit 2 Looking into the Future I.阅读理解 The sweet spot may not be in making games A at all.Apple and Google sell and distribute games For Amazon and Netflix,adding games to from their app stores and take a cut of as much as their platforms could attract more subscribers.Or 30 percent from each sale.No wonder established at the very least dissuade existing ones from game makers are more concerned about middlemen leaving.After a jump caused by pandemic in users, than new entrants. Netflix dropped 430.000 subseribers in the second 1.What does the underlined word "dissuade"in quarter but regained some of these in the third Paragraph 1 mean? quarter. A.forbid. B.discourage. Netflix has said in the past that in the C.release. D.protect. "attention economy",it competes against videogames 2.Why does the author mention Disney and Amazon just as much as video streaming services. in Paragraph 4? But gaming is a difficult market to enter.For A.To show the success made by the two companies. every successful game,there are thousands of failures. B.To indicate the difficulty in subscribing to Netflix hopes to translate the success of shows like video games. Stranger Things into video game hits.But good games C.To compare video gaming services with video- need more than recognizable names.Development streaming services. requires different infrastructure and talents. D.To prove the challenge in making money Just ask Disney.The entertainment king shut through gaming industry. down its games studio in 2016 and transformed into a licensing model.Also,Amazon spent near 3.What is Netflix's plan for gaming service? 1bn acquiring video-streaming service Twitch, A.It will attract subscribers to buy its game. launched gaming streaming service Luna and B.It wants to profit from its game consoles. canceled at least four video games before New C.In-game purchases are its sweet spot to make World. money. Established game makers such as Sony and D.It uses free games as a hook