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r) We should be kind ……dumb animals.
s) I’m very fond …… anything sweet.
t) We are really excited …… her wedding.
u) Who wouldn’t be good …… it!
You will get interested in the text ahead, because it is about a young man of
around your age, who has already made his career and is making his first million
of pounds.
A-LEVELS OR ONE MILLION OF POUNDS?
When at the age of three David Bolton began using a calculator, his proud
parents foresaw that he would do well at school. They couldn’t have anticipated
the problem he would face 14 years later. While most pupils his age are
struggling with A-levels, he is trying to perform an uneasy balancing act
between schoolwork and making his first big money from a computer
consultancy. He is meeting his headmaster tomorrow for a showdown that could
mean he will have to leave school.
Since his early days Bolton has progressed from computer to computer with
such ease that
He now sells his own programmes to property firms and to doctors waiting to
put their patients’ records on disk.
“It’s a quandary,” said the schoolboy, who has turned up for morning
assembly in his Porsche 924. “The business opportunities may not come again if
I don’t seize them now, and I also understand why my parents and my
headmaster would prefer me to stay at school. However, I cannot concentrate on
my lessons if I need to meet clients, and sometimes the problem will not wait.”
Since Bolton is over 16, he can legally decide whether or not to stay on at
school. He is apprehensive that business opportunities, if not immediately
exploited, may not be repeated, but he doesn’t want to destroy his parents’
dream of him achieving a Cambridge degree.
Bolton is a pupil at Wilson’s, a highly academic grammar school (founded
1615) in Wallington, Surrey. Last week he was plunged into controversy when
his father, Bill Bolton, a retired hospital worker, told John Simpson, the
headmaster, that his son wished to leave so that he could devote himself to his
computer consultancy (which the boy runs from his bedroom). Bolton Junior has
made it clear that he will quit unless the school rules are modified to allow him
to attend urgent business meetings. At school, meanwhile, Bolton sat 10 GCSEs
a year early and obtained four A grades, four Bs and two Cs. He also wrote
persuasive letters to companies offering himself as a computer consultant –
usually omitting to mention his age.
After you have read the text and pondered over the fantastic abilities of the 16-
year old boy, you may do a few exercises to brush up your English.
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