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 .Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases...
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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 .
Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.
The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.
Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.
He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.
David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.
"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.
“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."
David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."
Question 12. David's greatest problem is _______
A. learning to drive.
B. spending his salary.
C. inventing computer games.
D. making the banks treat him as an adult.
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1.In recent years,more and more people .............for things with credit cards
A.pay B.paid C.are playing D.have been paying
2.What people ..............Benetton stores is that the quality is always high
A.like b.like very much c.like about d.like a lot
3.Paolo would like to.......by the time he is 40
a.travel b.be traveling c.be going to travel d.have traveled
4.Poverty is a problem in many cities ..............whole families can only afforld to live in one room
a.when b.where c.even d.if
5The world would be a better place if everyone showed ........cooperation as John
a.as much b.so much c.too much d.much
6.he turned on the TV,....i thought was rather surprising
a.and b.so c.that d.which
7.My car would not start ,....................Jenny's stared immediately
a.whereas b.though c.however d.nevertheless
8.They stayed for hour,which I was very ..........
a.annoyed b.annoyed about c.annoying d.annoying me
9.That was a very strange question ......
a.you ask b.you are asking c.for asking d.to ask
10.............a movie to be enteraingting ,it has to have an interesting story
a.so that b.in order that c.in order for d.in order to