Bill Gate is the cofounder of Microsoft, the most successful software company in the world, renowned for making software that is powerful and innovative while still being user friendly, Microsoft now employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries. Bill Gates was born on 28 October 1955 and raised in Seattle. Bill became interested in programming at an early age while attending the Lakeside School in Seattle. He soon befriended a student named Paul Allen, and together they practiced their skills using the school’s minicomputer. They turned to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), and in exchange for free use of a more powerful computer, they searched for bugs in CCC’s computer system. Bill went on to Harvard University and while there teamed up with Paul to write a new version of Basic programming language for the first personnel computer, the Altair 8800. They licensed (授权）the software to the manufacturer of the Altair, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), and formed Microsoft to develop
Bill Gates became interested in programming ().
- A、At the Lakeside School in Seattle
- B、At Harvard University
- C、in MITS
- D、In Microsoft
正确答案:A
答案解析:有
MS-DOS is ().
- A、a computer brand
- B、a computer company
- C、an application software
- D、an operating system
正确答案:D
答案解析:有
Microsoft offered its stock to the public in ().
- A、1980
- B、1986
- C、1987
- D、The 1990s
正确答案:B
答案解析:有
The best title for this passage is ().
- A、Bill Gates, the Innovator
- B、Bill Gates and Microsoft
- C、Bill Gates and MS-DOS
- D、Bill Gates, the Youngest Billionaire
正确答案:B
答案解析:有
Bill Gates worked for the CCC because ().
- A、he wanted to earn money to buy a computer
- B、he wanted to use the company’s computer for free
- C、he was interested in collecting insects
- D、he had to get working experience in order to enter Harvard University
正确答案:B
答案解析:有
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