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III. READING. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (2.5 points - 0.5 /each)

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 Alien. When they were in class eight, they

were writing programs for business computers.

In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. 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 1975, they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product.

By 1990, at the age of thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the United

States. He was the "King of Software". He achieved his success with a lot of hard work. For more than

ten years, he worked sixteen-hour days, seven days a week. He had a dream and the will to succeed. By