A. INVITES B. PREVENTS C. ATTRACTS D. GATHERSREAD THE FOLLOWING PA...

27. A. invites

B. prevents

C. attracts

D. gathers

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet

to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

Personal computers, or PCs, are an important part of our everyday lives. Many people

cannot imagine life without them. One of the most important people in making these

machines work is Bill Gates.

Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State. He grew up in a rich family. His

parents sent him to a private school. There he met his business partner, Paul Allen. When

they were in eighth grade, they were writing programs for business computers and

making money.

In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They

thought he would get over his obsession with computers and become a lawyer like his

father. Two years later, Gates

dropped out of

Harvard to work on a computer program

with his friend Allen. They worked eighteen hours a day in a dormitory room at Harvard.

They were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers. In