Question

【題目】閱讀短文，并按要求完成76—80題。

Bill Gates is head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men. He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. He was a very bright boy. Science and math were his two favorite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist.

Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13. At that time, a computer was a very large machine. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software program. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17.

In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In 1975, Bill and his partners 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. Then Bill left Harvard to work for Microsoft, a company he started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing software for personal computers. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers. After many years of hard work, Microsoft becomes one of the most successful companies. And Bill Gates also becomes one of the richest businessmen in the world.

76 題判斷正誤（“T”表示正確，“F”表示錯誤）；77 題完成句子；78—79 題簡略回答問題；80 題將文中畫線句子譯成漢語。

【1】Bill Gates developed a software program called BASIC by himself.

【2】Bill Gates was born in _________ and grew up in Seattle. ____________________ .

【3】What did Bill Gates do on his 13?

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【4】What did Bill Gates and Paul Allen think of the computer?

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【5】_________________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】F

【2】 1955 with his two sisters

【3】He / Bill (first) started to play on computers.

【4】They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon

【5】他們升級軟件使它在人們用的時候更加簡單。

【解析】

文章大意：本文介紹了著名的微軟公司的創(chuàng)始人比爾蓋茨。比爾在13歲開始接觸電腦，并立即對之產(chǎn)生了濃厚的興趣，17歲賺了創(chuàng)業(yè)的第一桶金。1975年大學(xué)還未畢業(yè)的比爾蓋茨毅然放棄學(xué)業(yè)，和兒時好友保羅艾倫合作成立了微軟公司，經(jīng)過他們數(shù)十年不懈的努力，微軟公司獲得了巨大的成功。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的句子In 1975, Bill and his partners developed a software program called BASIC.“1975年，比爾和他的伙伴開發(fā)了一個叫做BASIC的軟件程序�！笨芍�，本句敘述Bill Gates developed a software program called BASIC by himself.“比爾蓋茨自己開發(fā)了一個叫做BASIC的軟件程序。”是錯誤的，故答案為F。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的句子He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters.可知，比爾蓋茨出生于1955年，和他的兩個姐妹一起在西雅圖長大。故答案為(1). 1955 (2). with his two sisters

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的句子Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13.可知，比爾蓋茨13歲時，第一次開始玩電腦，故答案為He / Bill (first) started to play on computers.

【4】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的句子They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon.可知，他們認為計算機很快就會進入每個辦公室和每個家庭，故答案為：They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon.

【5】翻譯題。要求將英文句子They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers.翻譯成漢語。They“他們”；improve“改善、改進”；the software“軟件”；it指代前面的the software，to make it easier“去使它更容易”；for people to use computers“對于人們使用電腦”；故答案為：他們改進軟件，使人們使用計算機時更容易。