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Bill Gates is a very important person in the computer industry. He has been chief officer of Microsoft Company for several years. He is also the richest person in the United States. How did he do it?

He learned a lot from his parents. While Bill was going to school, his father went to college, got a degree, and became a successful lawyer.     1      . His mother was a very busy teacher, but she also loved going to parties. From this, he learned something else: if you want to work hard and play hard, you have to make a schedule.

     2      . While most of his friends were playing, Bill read all of the World Book Encyclopedia and finished it when he was 8 years old.     3      . He used to play a lot of sports — swimming， water-skiing, tennis. When Bill got older, he spent more and more time working and playing on a computer.

Before he was twenty, Bill developed the world’s first computer language for the personal computer.     4      . He thought that every home was going to have a computer, and every computer would need software — his software. He said, “ I’m going to make my first million dollars on software by the time I’m 25.” And he did! 

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Bill is from Australia. He lives in Sydney. He can speak French and English, but he can' t speak Chi­nese. He has a pen pal in the United States. Her name is Lisa and she lives in New York. Bill' s favorite sport is basketball and he can play the guitar. Lisa' s favorite sport is tennis. She can't play the guitar, but she can play the piano and sing very well.

1.Bill is from                 .

2.Lisa is an            .

3.What languages does Bill speak?

4.What is Bill' s favorite sport?

5.Which sentence is NOT right?

A. Bill has a pen pal in the USA.

B. Bill can play the piano and Lisa can play the guitar.

C. Bill and Lisa like different sports.

D. Lisa lives in New York.

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   Today is Sunday. The students ___1___ go to school. Jim and Kate go___2___ Bill and Jane. Bill and Jane are twins. Today is their birthday. On their way, they see a watch on the ground . It is a ___3___ watch. It looks new and nice. They don’t know ___4___it is. They give it to a ___5___.

At___6___ home, the boys and girls play games, they sing “Happy Birthday” ___7___ the twins, they ___8___ the big cake and bananas,___9___.

  It’s four o’clock now. It’s time ___10___. They say bye to the twins. They feel very happy.

(     )1. A. aren’t  B. don’t      C. can’t     D. mustn’t

(     )2. A. to look   B. to see      C. look at     D. see

(     )3. A. new     B. nice        C. English    D. Japanese

 (     )4. A. who     B. where      C. whose     D. what

(     )5. A. old man  B. old woman  C. teacher     D. policeman

(     )6. A. Bill’s and Jane’s      B. Bill’s and Jane

        C. Bill and Jane’s         D. Bill and Jane

(     )7. A. for      B. to          C. at  D. into

(     )8. A. share     B. has         C. enjoys     D. find

(     )9. A. also      B. too         C. and       D. also too

(     )10. A. to play games          B. to go home 

C. to go to school          D. to go to bed

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington in the US. He was a very clever boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and math. When he was 13, he started to play with computers. At that time, computers were large machines（机器）. Once he was very interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program（软件程序） with the old machine. Bill sold it for $4,200 when he was only 17.

In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University(哈佛大学). In his third school year, he left Harvard to work for a company called Microsoft（微软）. Bill began his company（公司） in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing(发展) the software for personal computers. They improved(改进) the software to make it easier for people to use computers.

1.Bill Gates grew up in _______.

     A. Canada       B. Australia      C. America      D. Germany

2.What subjects did Bill like best at school?

     A. Science and math         B. Languages and art  

C. Math and languages       D. Music and P.E

3.Bill’s company worked hard at _______.

      A. making large machines             B. playing computer games

      C. mending old machines              D. developing software

4.Bill started to play with computers ______.

       A. in 1955        B. in 1968      C. in 1973        D. in 1975

5.The underlined word “personal” means _______.

       A.个人的         B.公众的       C.大型的         D.昂贵的