Gates, William Henry Ⅲ, is the American business executive（管理人员）who serves as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation, the leading computer software（软件）company in the United States. Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 together with his high school friend Paul Allen. The company's success made Gates one of the most successful figures in the computer industry and, at last the richest person in the world.

　　Born in Seattle, Washington, Gates attended public school through the sixth grade. In the seventh grade he entered Seattle's exclusive Lakeside School, where he met Paul Allen. Gates was first introduced to computers and programming languages in 1968, when he was in the eight grade. That year Lakeside bought a teletype（电传打字）machine that connected to a main computer over phone lines. At that time, the school was one of the few that provided students with access（连接）to a computer.

　　Soon afterwards, Gates, Allen, and other students persuaded a local computer company to give them free access to its PDP--10, a new mini-computer made by Digital Equipment Corporation. In exchange for the computer time, the students tried to find flaws（缺陷）in the system. Gates spent much of his free time on the PDP--10, learning programming languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and LISP, In 1972 Gates and Allen founded Traf--0-- Data, a company that designed and built computerized car--counting machines for traffic analysis（分析）. The project served to introduce them to programmable 8006 microprocessor（微处理器）from Intel Corporation.

(1) We can judge that an exclusive school is one that is ________.

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A．very old

B．the only one

C．not found elsewhere and is for the wealthy only

D．not open to students with average intelligence

(2) Which of the following gives the right order of how Gates prepared himself to enter the computer industry?

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a．learned the basic knowledge and skill of the computer

b．was allowed to use a mini-computer freely

c．got to know 8006 microprocessor for the first time

d．spent much time learning programming languages

e．founded Traf--0--Data

(3) In which field were the products of Traf-- 0--Data mainly used?

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　　Today, no one thinks of Bill Gates as a failed entrepreneur or a college dropout yet. Both of these things are true of Gates, American richest man and the pioneering genius (天才) who leads the computer software industry.

　　Gates was born in Seattle in 1955. Young Gates's grades weren't always great. Although he did well in science and maths, he was something of an underachiever (后进生). But in the eighth grade be found his passion (激情). In the 1960's, the mothers' club at Gates' school bought a computer for the students.

　　Gates discovered it and soon became computer crazy. He spent every evening and weekend trying to master computer technology. His computer usage fees were so high that he hide from his parents the amount he spent. It wasn't long, though until his programming passion turned toward real goals. He and his friend Paul Allen started a company called Traf-0-Data. Their goal was to use new computer technology to count passing cars. The company went broke. After all he was only in the eighth grade. And it didn't discourage his interest in technology. In fact, it was because of his passion for programming that he later dropped out of Harvard. He spent two dissatisfying years at the university before he left to form another company with Allen. Gates and Allen called their software company Microsoft. In the 1970s it was only a small operation running out of loaned offices in Arizona. Gates would work late into the night and sometimes sleep under his desk. Today, Microsoft is the software industry giant. As chairman and chief executive (行政的) officer of Microsoft, Gates operates as the prince of programmers.

　　Despite his wealth and recent marriage, Gates hasn't slowed down. He is still a workaholic, putting in long hours at the office.

(1)The first computer that Gates was crazy for was a computer ________.

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A．at home

B．at school

C．at the mothers' club

D．at an office

(2)Once Gates was ________.

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A．a failed entrepreneur

B．a good student in his middle school

C．a crazy student

D．honest enough to tell his parents how much he spent on computer

(3)Gates' first company was ________.

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A．successful

B．unsuccessful

C．started when he was at college

D．called Microsoft

(4)Which of the following sentences is true? ________

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A．Gates graduated from Harvard.

B．The company Microsoft mainly use new computer to count passing cars.

C．The company Microsoft was started by Gates and Allen.

D．Not only chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft, Gates is also a prince in the U.S.A.

(5)The underlined word workaholic here means ________.

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A．a member of the company

B．a common person with high position

C．a person who has great interest in PC

Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’．An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.

At school the children are taught to add up and subtract（减法） but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.

Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England．Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say．And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed．Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.

As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long．Over 75% of seven- to 11-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends．By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft（透支） as a way of extending their spending power．Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”

The UK has been in the worst financial recession（衰退）for generations．It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university．In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents．

The passage is mainly about _____________.

       A．how to manage school lessons

       B．how to deal with the financial crisis

       C．teaching young people about money

       D．teaching students how to study effectively

It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that __________.

       A．the author complains about the school education

       B．pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract

       C．students have been taught to manage their finances

       D．laws on financial education have been effectively carried out

The website and the consumer campaigner joined to _________.

       A．instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money

       B．promote the connection of schools and families

       C．ask the government to dismiss the parliament

       D．appeal for the curriculum of financial education

According to Pfeg, ___________.

       A．it is easy to keep good habits long

       B．teenagers spend their money as planned

       C．parents are willing to pay the debt for their kids

       D．it will be in trouble if the teenagers are left alone

A poll is mentioned to ___________.

       A．stress the necessity of the curriculum reform

       B．show the seriousness of the financial recession

       C．make the readers aware of burden of the parents

       D．illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal