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