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His marriage has broken up. Since then, he always      his sorrow     drink.

A. throws… in      B. drowns … in     C. gets rid of … into     D. forgets… into
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As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. While he did not quite achieve that goal, only 15 years later, he was a millionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft company, he became the richest man in America with assets (资产) of approximately US $ 6. 3 billion.

    Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October, 1956, Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. From the beginning, he was an extremely energetic and intelligent child. He had read the entire world book encyclopedia (百科全书) by the age of nine. His favorite subjects at school were science and math and his favorite pastime was “thinking”.

    Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13, when one was installed at his school. At that time, computers were large, awkward (笨重的) machines. Operators were required to learn complex (复杂的) computer languages before the machines could be used. Even then a great deal of time and effort was needed to perform the simplest functions. Before long Gates was an expert at working the school's computer. After his graduation from secondary school, Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA Princeton, Harvard and Yale. He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autumn, majoring math. But he was still obsessed (占据心思) with computers and spent as much time in the computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls.

    By 1975, Gates and a partner, Paul Allen, had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it.

    BASIC was a success because until it came along, there had been no efficient way of getting computers to carry out instructions. Although he had not completed his degree, Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called Microsoft.

    His next project was the software program that made him famous and very rich. It was called DOS, short for Disk Operating System, and it was purchased (购买) by 113M in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world.

    As chief executive office of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize (批评) his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made. He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut until his marriage to Microsoft manager Melinda French on New Year's Day 1994. Yet to most people now, Gates is a person who is, in spite of his great wealth, humble (谦恭) and ordinary. He spends his money carefully. He eats in fast food restaurants and flies economy class. And when praised for Microsoft's great success, he has been heard to say. “All we do is put software in a box and if people see it in the stores and like it, they buy it. “

1When he was a teenager, Bill Gates wanted to be a  ________.

    A. teacher

    B. doctor

    C. businessman

    D. professor

2When Gates went to Harvard, he ________.

    A. was interested only in math

    B. spent most of his time in computer laboratories

    C. developed the first computer software program

    D. divided his time between his math studies and the computer laboratories

3Before the development of BASIC, ________.

    A. no one was interested in computer software

    B. software programs were not considered commercial projects

    C. software programs were very expensive

    D. no one wanted to pay for computer software

4When the writer says, “Bill was regarded as an unfashionable boring computer nut”, he means ________.

    A. Bill was so strong-minded that no one could change his mind

    B. the only thing that could interests Bill on his life was computer

    C. Bill was such a boring young man that nobody would like to talk to him

    D. Bill couldn't work out the boring computer problems

5Most people think Gates is ________.

    A. a crazy person

    B. a person obsessed with making money

    C. someone who spends money freely

    D. a quite common, normal person

 

Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers,seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains,anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well,Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix,wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French,from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all,”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I askeD.Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains,was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1.  A.purpose    B.love C.answer      D.even

2.  A.joy    B.thought     C.lesson       D.shock

3.  A.mountains B.churches   C.faces D.girls

4.  A.accept      B.understand       C.bear  D.tell

5.  A.believed   B.knew C.wondered  D.realized

6.  A.jobs         B.words       C.adventures       D.deeds

7.  A.where       B.when C.which       D.how

8.  A.one   B.reason      C.sign   D.doubt

9.  A.all         B.two   C.both  D.double

10.A.family   B.mountain  C.theatre      D.holiday

11.A.ever  B.even  C.never D.almost

12.A.interests    B.life    C.room D.car

13.A.wonder         B.way   C.time  D.problems

14.A.days  B.honeymoon      C.childhood D.rest of life

15.A.away B.as      C.by     D.from

16.A.show B.sight  C.scene D.game

17.A.miss  B.escape      C.break D.forget

18.A.position    B.face   C.point D.line

19.A.programme      B.progress    C.fun    D.invention

20.A.photographs     B.roles  C.sports       D.pains

Discouraged by reading bad news daily and with his marriage failing, Canadian Neil Pasricha  decided to try to focus on the positive and come up with 1,000 simple, free, awesome things, posting one each day on a blog.

       Pasricha said his blog aimed to highlight life's simple pleasures, which were often taken for granted, such as finding forgotten money in a pocket, or fixing a TV set with a heavy blow.

       Little did he realize his blog would strike a nerve and attract 40,000 people a day to join his discussions on how to enjoy the last triangle of a potato crisp, or the pleasure of laughing so hard that you cry.

       Pasricha, aged 30, was amazed to win two Webby awards, known as "the Oscars of the Internet," something positive at a time when his marriage broke up and one of his closest friends committed suicide.

       "I turned the worst year of my life into my best year by focusing on the positive. " Pasricha told Reuters in a telephone interview. "Every day I try to find something that is happy, free and universal to share, like the smell of a bakery or when a cashier opens up a new line at a store. "

       Pasricha said when he began his blog in June 2008 he thought he might have trouble coming up with 1,000 simple, happy moments in life but now he is more than halfway through and ideas keep flooding in, from himself and from followers of his blog.

       "These moments can start a huge conversation. Most of our life is really about hitting green lights on the way home from, or waking up before your alarm goes off and realizing you have more time in bed. But it is those small moments we forget about."

       Despite the success of his blog, Pasricha does not want to change his daily life. “I travel regularly for an hour a day to work in the suburb. I like work because I like the people in my office. I’m not a writer and I don’t know how to use punctuations correctly. I just like observing the world and putting it down,” he said.

Neil Pasricha determined to post positive feelings or things on his blog because          .

       A.daily bad news and broken marriage saddened him

       B.1,000 simple, free, happy things excited him

       C.he wanted to forget his marriage life

       D.he wanted to make his blog successful

Which of the following will Pasricha probably NOT post onto his blog?

       A.Coming across an old schoolmate.

       B.Finding his lost dog come back home.

       C.Falling off his bike and getting injured.

       D.Buying his favourite book at a special price.

According to the passage, Pasricha         .

       A.gets ideas for 1,000 simple, free, happy things with trouble

       B.gets ideas for 1,000 simple, free, happy things on his own

       C.is on his way to collecting 1,000 simple, free, happy things

       D.has finished collecting 1,000 simple, free, happy things

Which of the following might be the best title for the poassage?

       A.Hard life for a Canadian blogger    B.Busy life for a Canadian blogger

       C.Great awards for a Canadian blogger     D.Great success for a Canadian blogger

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