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     Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father,
William H. Gates II, was a Seattle lawyer. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a school teacher. Gates
attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It
was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer soft-ware, programming computers
at age 13.
     In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve
Ballmer, who is now Microsoft"s president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version (版本) of the
programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer—the MITS Astair. In his junior year, Gates
dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975
with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable
tool on every office desk-top and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
     Gates" foresight has led to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. He plays an important
role in the technical development of new products. Much of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in touch with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.
     In the dozen years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than $ 800 million to charities (慈善机构), including $ 200 million to the Gates Library Foundation to help libraries in North America
make use of new technologies and the Information Age. 1. Where did Bill Gates begin his career in personal computer software?A. At public elementary school.
B. At the private Lakeside School.
C. At Harvard University.
D. At Microsoft Company. 2. Why did he drop out of Harvard?A. To change school.
B. To spend all his energies to Microsoft.
C. To find a full-time job.
D. To earn money.3. How does Gates spend much of his time?A. Meeting with people.
B. Travelling around the world.
C. E-mailing some friends.
D. Meeting with customers and e-mailing Microsoft employees.4. What does the underlined word "donated" in the last paragraph mean?A. gave.
B. earned.
C. made.
D. received.

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阅读理解     One of the greatest stories of rags to riches success is that of Andrew Carnegie, who started life in
poverty but became one of the richest men in the world.
     Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835, the son of a weaver. In 1848, the family moved to the United States and at 13 Carnegie began to work in a cotton mill, earning $1.5 per week.About three years later,
he found a better job as a telegraph messenger boy. At work, his superiors (上级) were impressed by
his abilities and willingness to work hard. In 1853, he gained an office job at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. This was his first big break. He continued to impress and rose rapidly through the company,
gaining_more_and_more_responsibility.At the same time, Carnegie loved reading very much and made
use of every opportunity to visit the library.He read widely on all subjects, particularly literature.
     Carnegie now began to save a little money and, with the help of his employer, began to make some
successful investments. He invested in the iron industry and eventually set up in business himself, owning
several iron and steel plants. This was where he made his fortune.By the 1890s, the Carnegie Steel
Company was the biggest and most profitable business in the world.
     Carnegie had always believed that the pursuit (追求) of wealth was never an end in itself. In his view,
successful, wealthy people should redistribute their wealth for the benefit of everyone in society. True to
his word, in 1901, at the age of 66, he retired from business and devoted the rest of his life to charity
work.
     Carnegie"s lack of formal education and his poor family background clearly didn"t put barriers in the
way of success. His rapid rise from poverty to wealth was due to his willingness to work hard, his
intelligence and good business sense, and his talent for making things happen. He died in 1919 at the age
of 83.1. What can be learnt from the text?A. Carnegie"s employers had a high opinion of him.
B Carnegie made the investments independently after saving enough money.
C. Carnegie believed that we should try to earn as much money as possible in our life.
D. Carnegie could have been more successful if he had been formally educated.2. What does "gaining more and more responsibility" in the second paragraph most probably mean?A. Becoming more and more intelligent.
B. Being promoted to higher ranks.
C. Having a better sense of confidence.
D. Reading more and more books.3. When did Carnegie get his first big success in his life?A. When he took a job as a telegraph messenger boy.
B. When he worked at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
C. When he made investments in the iron industry.
D. When he founded the Carnegie Steel Company.4. Which of the following will be the suitable title for the text?A. Andrew Carnegie: A Wealthy Man
B. Steel & Iron: The Most Profitable Business
C. From Rags to Riches: The Story of Andrew Carnegie
D. Intelligence and Good Business Sense: Two Factors in Becoming Wealthy

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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 who leads the computer
software industry.
     Gates was born in Seattle in 1955. Young Gates" grades weren"t always great. Although he did well in
science and maths, he was something of an underachiever. But in the eighth grade he found his passion. 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 office 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 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 _   __  .A.  at home
B.  at school
C.  at the mothers" club
D.  at an office2. Once Gates was ___ _    . 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 computer3. Gates" first company was ___      .     A. successful
B. unsuccessful
C. started when he was at college
D. called Microsoft4. Which of the following sentences is true?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 USA5. The underlined word workaholic here means ___      _.A. a member of the company
B. a common person with high position
C. a person who has great interest in PC
D. one who has a strong determination and interest to work

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Kasey Kaxzmarek
       When I read “Would he love me?”, I always wondered if my dad cared about me. I used to think about him all the time, especially on Father’s Day. All the kids would be with their dads and they would ask me where my dad was, so I would tell them that he was out of town. Tha was all that I could really say because I didn’t know. For all your kids who have a dad, tell him how much you love him, becaue there are plenty of kids who would love to have a dad.
Armen Abidian T
        his article describes everything about me and my life. When I was 3, my mother and father had a big argument and got divorced(离婚). Now I’m 13 years old. Just like Martha, I don’t know what he looks like now, whether or not he’s gotten married to a different woman, or if he has children. No matter what, I will always love my father, Albert Abidian.
Briana Collura
       After I read “Would he love me?” I felt terrible. I never thought about how life would be without my dad. When Martha talked about how “most girls have dads who take them to their practices, buy them things and play with them,” I thought, I am one of those girls. I never stopped to think about how there are girls like Martha who have always dreamed of having those things but don’t have a father.
Stephanie Felix
       This article reminded(提醒) me of how much I missed my dad when I was younger. I really relate to this article because I used to always wonder about my dad, but not anymore. It has made me more independent(独立的) and responsible, or at least that is what my mother says. By reading this article I remember all of this and I was able to understand what the writer was talking about.

1. What do these people tell us in the passage?

A. Their feelings after reading the article.
B. How they love their father.
C. What their fathers do.
D. Their life without their fathers

2. Which of the following about Kasey Daczmarek is TRUE?

A. His father was out of town.
B. He knew what his father was doing.
C. He seldom thought about his father.
D. When asked where his father was, he always lied.

3. How long have Armen Abidian’s parents been divorced?

A. For three years.
B. For ten years.
C. For seven years.
D. For thirteen years.

4. Compared with the other girls, Briana Collura_______.

A. felt terrible about her family life
B. lived in a single-parent family
C. lived a much happier life
D. always dreamed of her father

5. Whose life is most similar to that of the author?

A. Kasey Kaczmarck.
B. Armen Abidian.
C. Briana Collura.
D. Stephanie Felix.

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     Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a
family of seven children, she often felt like she had "seven fathers," because her six brothers, as well as
her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite
her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
     In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and
worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for
a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university"s Writers" Workshop, however, she felt lonely—a Mexican American from a
poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped
Cisneros find her "Creative voice."
     "It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice.
I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn"t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance
in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That"s when I decided I would write about something my
classmates couldn"t write about."
     Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The
book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much
like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been
used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children"s book, and a short-story collection.1. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?A. She had seven brothers.
B. She felt herself unimportant.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not have any good teachers.2. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to __________.A. work for a school magazine
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends
D. develop her writing style3. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?A. It is quite popular among high school students.
B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn"t a success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

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        He could have been president of Israel-or played the violin at Carnegie Hall,but he was too busy
thinking-thinking on God,love and the meaning of life.
       Fifty years after his death,his shock (蓬乱) of white hair and hanging moustache still symbolize genius.Einstein remains the leading scientist of the modern time.Looking back 2,400 years,only Newton,Galileo
and Aristotle were his equals.
       Around the world,universities and academies are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein"s
"miracle year" when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that basically changed our grasp of space,
time,light and matter.Only he could top himself about ten years later with his theory of relativity.
       Born in the age of horsedrawn carriages,his ideas launched a technological revolution that has made
more change in a century than in the previous two thousand years.Computers,satellites,telecommunication,
lasers,television and nuclear power all owe their invention to ways in which Einstein exposed a stranger and more complicated reality under the world.
       He escaped Hitler"s Germany and devoted the rest of his life to human rights and peace with an
authority (当局) unmatched by any scientist today,or even most politicians and religious leaders.He spoke out against fascism and racial prejudice.His FBI (美国联邦调查局) file ran 1,400 pages.
       His letters expose a disorderly personal life-married twice and indifferent toward his children while
absorbed in physics.Yet he charmed lovers and admirers with poetry and sailboat outings.Friends and
neighbors fiercely protected his privacy (隐私)．

1．The first paragraph implies that Einstein________.

A．had run for president before he worked at his research
B．had the gift for politics and music
C．was an excellent violinist
D．was more a political leader or a musician than a thinker

2．When you think of Einstein,what typical appearance was formed in your mind?

A．Funning and humorous with an air of a musician.
B．Wearing very wide trousers,a moustache,with an image of an actor.
C．Rough untidy mass of white hair and hanging moustache,with an image of a thinker.
D．Black long hair and moustache,with an air of a painter.

3．Why was 1905 called Einstein"s "miracle year"?

A．Because he topped himself with the theory of relativity.
B．Because he made important discoveries of space,time,light and matter.
C．Because he published five papers on his theory of relativity.
D．Because he wrote five important articles to help people better understand space,time,light and matter.

4．Which of the following is NOT true about Einstein according to the passage?

A．He was so busy with the physical research that he showed no interest in politics.
B．He tried to amuse his admirers and friends in his spare time.
C．When he was absorbed in his research,he didn"t care about his family.
D．His theory led to much improvement in many technological fields.

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