An Italian philosopher once said that a great man makes his own good luck. What he means is that when good luck comes, a great man knows how to seize the opportunity and  36   advantage of it.

There is a story about Bill Gates, the  37   of Microsoft that proves this. One day an executive from a large computer company came to his  38   looking for someone who had  39   a new operating system for computers. He didn’t know too much about the inventor or his operating system, and he wasn’t  40   sure of the inventor’s address. At that time everything in the computer business was so new and so disorganized  41   normal business procedures were almost unknown.

It  42   that the inventor lived in a home next to Gates, but he was not at home when the executive came by. He may have been  43   at a meeting or shopping for new equipment. The executive,  44   no one home, wasn’t sure what to do, but he didn’t want to waste his trip, so he stopped by Gates’ house to ask him if he knew anything about the inventor’s system and  45  it worked.

Since Gates was working on very  46   software, most other people in his place would have spoken  47   with the executive, told him that he was working on something else, and then forgotten about the whole thing. Gates, however, saw a(n)  48   and jumped on it. He told the executive that  49   he was working on his own operating system(he wasn’t)and he would be  50   to discuss it with the executive in a few weeks.

After the executive  51   to a meeting to be held a few weeks later, Gates quickly went out  52   for someone who had a workable new operating system. As an engineer he had a better idea than the executive about what he needed, and when he found someone with an operating system that he liked, he made modifications(修改) 53  on what the executive told him. His meeting a few weeks later was a great  54  , and Gates’ new operating system was sold to the large company and the sale became the foundation of Microsoft. Within two decades Gates was the richest man in the world. He  55   his own luck by seizing an unexpected opportunity.

36. A. take         B. make           C. use         D. give

37. A. discoverer         B. founder          C. organizer         D. speaker

38. A. neighborhood      B. home           C. office        D. company

39. A. worked          B. bought          C. found           D. invented

40. A. certainly          B. fairly         C. ever           D. even

41. A. as             B. whose      C. that           D. which

42. A. found out         B. turned out        C. turned up         D. showed up

43. A. out          B. outside      C. off          D. up

44. A. expecting         B. considering    C. looking          D. seeing

45. A. when       B. where      C. how           D. why

46. A. same           B. different     C. similar      D. exact

47. A. attentively         B. carefully     C. briefly        D. closely

48. A. choice      B. possibility      C. opportunity       D. occasion

49. A. after all          B. in fact      C. in hand          D. in addition

50. A. devoted         B. invited          C. prepared        D. welcomed

51. A. promised          B. agreed      C. admitted        D. approved

52. A. looking           B. leaving       C. caring          D. hoping

53. A. depended        B. relied       C. based          D. fixed

54. A. mistake          B. failure      C. result        D. success

55. A. enjoyed         B. made           C. took           D. missed

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