In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others. However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. In this article, we will get to know three most successful people in U.S. who never finished their college education. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.
1. Bill Gates
Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Bill Gates “Harvard’s most successful dropout,” while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
2. Steve Jobs
The iPad, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Because his family couldn’t afford his college education, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months. Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made great influences on development of modern technique and culture. However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless.
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
As the America’s most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the “father of modernism." Wright’ s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
1. What does“dropouts”in Paragraph One mean?
A. Hardworking students. B. Very successful students.
C. Students failing to finish their school education. D. Students from poor families.
2.Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?
A. People graduating from famous universities are more likely to get jobs.
B. Many successful people had the experience of giving up their school education.
C. If one has a lot of gold, he will become very rich one day.
D. We should stop our college education to follow in those successful people’s steps.
3.According to the writer, Bill Gates _________.
A. is richer than any other man in the world
B. is well-known in Harvard University
C. finally finished his study at Harvard and got a doctorate degree
D. is the only founder of Microsoft
4.Which of the following statements can’t be learned from the last two paragraphs?
A. The reason for Jobs’ dropping his college education is that his parents couldn’t pay for it.
B. Jobs thought his six-month college education gave him no help.
C. Wright’s teacher was a very famous artist.
D. Wright is the designer of New York City’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
5. What does the author want to tell us in this passage?
A. Successful people often have unordinary life experience.
B. College education is not so important to one’s success.
C. People from poor families are more likely to give up their college education.
D. Even without college education, one can still achieve success with one’s hard work.
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with 21 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 22 . But what makes bolgging different from writing in a(n) 23 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 24 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 25 that he does not want to 26 with others.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 27 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 28 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 29 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 30 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 31 that my sister might read it.
The biggest 32 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 33 about him in my diary, he would never know. 34 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might 35 her blog and get angry.
There are also 36 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “ Nobody cares about me”, because no one would 37 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly 38 and tell her how much they 39 her. Blogs help people 40 in contact with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.
1.A. the same B. interesting C. difficult D. daily
2.A. simple B. special C. similar D. different
3.A. personal B. ordinary C. meaningful D. traditional
4.A. attractive B. public C. exciting D. quick
5. A. thoughts B. puzzles C. ideas D. secrets
6.A. tell B. share C. publish D. solve
7.A. instead of B. as well as C. except for D. besides
8.A. blog B. diary C. report D. web
9.A. Although B. Since C. When D. Because
10.A. only B. already C. still D. never
11.A. angry B. sad C. glad D. worried
12.A. problem B. doubt C. question D. mistake
13.A. boring B. wrong C. mean D. funny
14.A. So B. However C. Therefore D. Then
15.A. steal B. break C. write D. read
16.A. reasons B. wishes C. shortcomings D. advantages
17.A. care B. know C. think D. ask
18.A. prepare B. begin C. respond D. feel
19.A. like B. miss C. need D. stand
20.A. lose B. stay C. leave D. find
—Lost and Found Office, _______?
—I wonder if you have a camera of mine.
A. who’s that B. what’s that C. what if D. can I help you?
We are short of clean safe drinking water, which is found to be the ______ in many third world countries.
A.example |
B.event |
C.case |
D.object |
Colonel Edward is not his real name, and it’s one he uses to ______ his identity.
A.distinguish |
B.disguise |
C.classify |
D.convince |
— Do you like cooking, Serena?
— ______. Luckily, I’ve never had to worry about it. My husband will do the job.
A.Never mind |
B.Not really |
C.All right |
D.No way |