Bill Gates and Walt Disney are two people America has ________ to be the Greatest Amer
A) appointed
B) appeased
C) nicknamed
D) dominated
A) appointed
B) appeased
C) nicknamed
D) dominated
第2题
A.BillGates62
B.fname:"Bill",lname:"Gates",age:62
C.BillGates
D.62
第3题
A.Moreover
B.Therefore
C.However
D.Besides
第4题
A.they are examples for us on our road to wealth
B.a portfolio is essential to financial success
C.they are really rich people
D.they started out on their own
第5题
Although he is so wealthy, Bill Gates does not want to give up. He is still very interested in his vision and he travels the globe, making quick stops in cities to sell the new software products of his company.
The central vision of Bill Gates is the “information highway”. This is a network for computers that will link every home, office and shop in the future. This computer network system will have an effect on business, shopping and education. Bill Gates says that the main use of this new technology will be in communication. It will be a way to find people with common interests and to share opinions with them.
But is this communication by computer along the “information highway” really a good thing? Won’t we be sitting at home, only “socializing” with our computer, paying big companies money so that we can receive information that some large communication corporation somewhere had decided is “acceptable” for us to read? No, says Bill Gates, he thinks that the phrase “information highway” is a terrible phrase. It makes people think that we are all going down the same road, he says. In fact, the computer network will let us choose our own intellectual direction. It will give us freedom. It will also bring good to society, because it will allow for the spread of education. When more and more people receive education, the gap between the rich and the poor will narrow.
In the meantime, however, the gap between the rich and the poor is still there. To be added to this now is the gap between those with computers and those without.
1.Ever since he was a college student, Bill Gates has __________.
A. become very interested in the computer
B. set up a goal to popularize the computer
C. discovered great potentials in computer business
D. dreamed of having a giant computer company
2.Bill Gates’ success depends on the following except ___________.
A. his vision and his travel over the globe
B. his technical skills and business marketing skills
C. his deep personal interest in developing computer science
D. his strong desire to make big money
3.The word “vision” (line 2, parA.2) probably means________.
A. sight
B. idea
C. effort
D. daydream
4.The “information highway” will mainly be used _______.
A. in human communication
B. to help link every home, office and shop
C. in business, shopping and education
D. to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor
5.The best title for this passage is probably _________.
A. Bill Gates, his Vision and Mission
B. Computer and Information
C. Advantages of the Computer Network
D. One of the World’s Computer Giants
第6题
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1995 in the United States.
A 19【M2】 photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager,
watched his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. 【M1】______
Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. As for a child, Gates 【M2】______
had neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile. He entered Harvard
and dropped out to found Microsoft in 19【M9】Microsoft's first 【M3】______
product was a version of the programming language BASIC, for
the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer.
BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964,
was someone else's idea. Such was the Alter. 【M4】______
By 1980, IBM had decided to build personal computers
and needed a PC operating system. So they fired Microsoft to 【M5】______
build its operating system. Microsoft bought Q-DOS from a
company called Seattle Computer Products and retailed them 【M6】______
for the PC.
The PC was released in August 1981 and was following 【M7】______
into the market by huge flocks of honking, beeping clones.
Apple released the Macintosh in 1984: a sophisticated
computer was now available to the masses. In May 1990,
Microsoft finally perfected it's own version of Apple windows 【M8】______
3.0, another huge hit.
By the early 1990s, electronic mail and the Internet were
big. Technologists forecast an Internet centered view of computing
called "mirror worlds". The World Wide Web was emerged in 【M9】______
1994, marking browsers unnecessary, and Netscape was founded 【M10】______
that same year.
【M1】
第7题
听力原文: Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, his high school friend and partner in computer-language development since 1967.
Fascinated by computers by the age of 12, Gates was involved with various programming projects throughout high school. While attending Harvard in 1975, Gates teamed with Allen to develop a version of the BASIC computer-programming language for the Altair, the first personal computer. As a result of this work on BASIC, Gates decided to drop out of Harvard in 1977 to work at Microsoft full-time, pursuing his vision of "a computer on every desk and in every home," the idea behind the company. In the early 1980s, Gates led Microsoft's evolution from a developer of programming languages to a diversified software company producing operating systems and applications software as well as programming tools. This transition began in 1981 with Microsoft's introduction of MS-DOS, the operating system for International Business Machines Corporation's new Personal Computer. Gates persuaded other computer manufacturers to standardize on MSDOS, fueling software compatibility and computer industry growth in the 1980s. Gates also pushed Microsoft to introduce application software, such as Microsoft Word word-processing software for the IBM PC. In a key strategic move, Gates agreed to develop application software for the Apple Macintosh prior to the release of the first Mac in 1984. This was the beginning of strong position for Microsoft in applications that take advantage of the graphical user interface.
Much of Gates' success rests on his ability to translate technical visions into market strategy, and to blend creativity with technical acumen. He is one of the few founding CEOs from the technical side of the PC industry who has also survived and thrived on the business side.
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A.At the age of 20.
B.By the age of 12.
C.When he was at high school.
D.When he studied in Harvard University.
第8题
According to Jeffery Timmons, author of "New Venture Creation", there are three【C11】______components for a successful new【C12】______: the opportunity, the entrepreneur, and the【C13】______needed to start the company and make it grow. The opportunity is the【C14】______for a new business. The entrepreneur is the person who develops the idea for a【C15】______into a business. Resources include money, people and skill. In this part, we【C16】______on entrepreneurs, one of the critical【C17】______for success of a new business. Who are they? What makes them【C18】______?
One factor which【C19】______Bill Gates from the morning paper deliverer is the level of business success each desires to achieve. Determining【C20】______success means to you is a crucial element in the early stages of new venture planning.
【C1】
A.superficial
B.dynamic
C.rigid
D.doubtful
第9题
The billionaires mentioned in the passage dont want to leave much of their wealth to their children because______.
A.they prefer to give their wealth to charity
B.they want their business to go on healthily
C.they believe too much wealth will harm their children
D.they hope their children can make more money themselves
第10题
【24】______, laterborns are up to 15 times more likely than firstborns to【25】______authority and break new【26】______, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In his book"Born To Rebel"being【27】______this week, Sulloway claims that【28】______someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important【29】______shaping personality - more significant than gender, race, nationality【30】______class.
He spent 26 years【31】______the lives - and birth orders - of 6, 566 historical【32】______to reach his conclusions.
A laterborn himself, Sulloway first【33】______how birth order affected personality【34】______a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University.
" How could a somewhat【35】______student at Cambridge become the most【36】______thinker in the 19th century?" he said.
Darwin, the first to【37】______the belief that God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six children. Most of his【38】______were firstborns.
Sulloway's theory held【39】______with Copernicus, the first astronomer to【40】______that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.
【21】
A.Likewise
B.Likely
C.Alike
D.Unlike