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 nearly 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. Before long he became 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 autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed（占据心里）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 by IBM in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world.

As chief executive officer（首席行政长官）of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize 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 many 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."

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

A．teacher           B．doctor            C．businessman       D．professor

2.When Gates went to Harvard, he ______.

A．was only interested in maths

B．spent most of his time in computer laboratories

C．developed the first computer software program

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

3.Before 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

4.When the writer says "He was regarded as a loner and 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 interest Bill in 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 programs

5.Most people think that Bill 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

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 nearly 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. Before long he became 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 autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed（占据心里）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 by IBM in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world.
As chief executive officer（首席行政长官）of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize 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 many 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."
【小题1】When he was a teenager, Bill Gates wanted to be a ______.

   In the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents. Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood. The “New breed”, born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness. Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature adults, to becoming social citizens. Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had untied the nation together.

Japan’s birth rate has been falling rapidly, partly because of the recession(衰退), and the job and financial（金融的）insecurity that it has caused. In 1999, the figure was 1. 38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded. At the same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record-keeping began 32 years ago. Likewise, the percentage of students dropping out before graduating, at 2. 5% also very low by western standards, has been rising.

Entrepreneurial ( 企业家的) role models are few and far between. Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence. The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such ordeal（考验）as starting a company. In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hitachi provided role models of a sort. But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place.

Young people also quite often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children. “The one thing they’re sure of is that they don’t want to be like their fathers. And the girls don’t want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be,” says Professor Morishma.  

68. According to the passage, former young people were expected to ___________.

     A. to enter the society before adulthood                    

     B. to hold together

     C. to work hard and support their family                   

     D. to study hard and find a good job

69. The word “it” (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably refers to _________.

     A. economic recession                                      B. job unsafety

     C. birth rate                                                     D. financial unsafety

70. The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students’ dropping out before graduating to show __________.

     A. the youth are overburdened                                 

     B. the educational system in Japan is not satisfying

     C. public security and order in Japan is bad

     D. the ethnical (道德的) level of youth in Japan is falling

71. Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan _________.

     A. because of the discouragement of Japanese culture            

     B. because of the worshipping of western models

     C. because of the lack of experience of starting a company

     D. because the “new breed” don’t want to work hard

（重庆市西南师大附中2010届高三第七次月考D篇）

In the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents. Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood. The “new breed”, born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness. Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature adults, to becoming social citizens. Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had united the nation together.

Japan’s birth rate has been falling rapidly, partly because of economic decline, and the job and financial insecurity that it has caused. In 1999, the figure was 1.38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded. At the same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record – keeping began 32 years ago. Likewise, the proportion of students dropping out before graduating, at 2.5% also very low by western standards, has never the less been rising.

Entrepreneurial(企业家的) role models are few and far between. Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence. The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such difficult or painful experience as starting a company. In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hitachi provided role models of a sort. But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place.

By the same reason, young people often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children. “The one thing they’re sure of is that they don’t want to be like their fathers. And the girls don’t want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be,” says Professor Morishima.

68.According to the passage, young people were formerly expected to _________.

A. enter society before adulthood   B. hold together

C. work hard and support their families                 D. study hard and find a good job

69.The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students’ drop – out rates to show __________.

A. Japanese youth are overburdened

B. the educational system in Japan is not working

C. public security and order in Japan are bad

D. young people in Japan have lower standards than previously

70.Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan because _________.

A. Japanese culture discourages people talking about how to start a company

B. western models are considered to be better

C. people lack experience in starting up complaints

D. the “new breed” don’t want to work hard

71.The passage mainly discusses _________.

A. the decline of the Japanese economy

B. the great change of the ethnical and value concept of youth in Japan.

C. the existence of generation gap between young people and their parents

D. the increase in birth rates in Japan.

In the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents．Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood．The “New breed”, born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness．Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature adults, to becoming social citizens．Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had untied the nation together．

Japan’s birth rate has been falling rapidly, partly because of the recession(衰退), and the job and financial（金融的）insecurity that it has caused．In 1999, the figure was 1．38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded．At the same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record-keeping began 32 years ago．Likewise, the percentage of students dropping out before graduating, at 2．5% also very low by western standards, has been rising．

Entrepreneurial ( 企业家的) role models are few and far between．Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence．The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such ordeal（考验）as starting a company．In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hitachi provided role models of a sort．But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place．

Young people also quite often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children．“The one thing they’re sure of is that they don’t want to be like their fathers．And the girls don’t want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be,” says Professor Morishma．

1．According to the passage, former young people were expected to ___________．

　 A．to enter the society before adulthood　　　　

B．to hold together

　 C．to work hard and support their family　　　　

D．to study hard and find a good job

2．The word “it” (Line 2, Para．2) most probably refers to _________．

　 A．economic recession　　　　　　　　　　 B．job unsafety

　 C．birth rate　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．financial unsafety

3．The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students’ dropping out before graduating to show __________．

　 A．the youth are overburdened　　　　　　　　

　 B．the educational system in Japan is not satisfying

　 C．public security and order in Japan is bad

　 D．the ethnical (道德的) level of youth in Japan is falling

4．Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan _________．

　 A．because of the discouragement of Japanese culture　 　　

B．because of the worshipping of western models

　 C．because of the lack of experience of starting a company

D．because the “new breed” don’t want to work hard