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      11) that he's packed with high-tech gadgetry                            Microsoft has created Windows, which is a system (o) ... with a
      12) that can be run by clicking on icons                                mouse.
      13) encoded with their personal preferences                                    Now the multi-billionaire, (p) ... in two-thirds of the world's
      14) who is now a very successful businesswoman                          computers, is developing the HPC, or hand-held personal computer. It is
      15) that allows him                                                     his intention that there should be a computer in the pocket of everybody
      16) which put him among the top ten students                            in the whole world.

           THE MAN WHO COULD BUY ANYTHING9                                          2. Answer the questions.
                                                                                    1. How wealthy is Bill Gates?
        Bill Gates is the richest private citizen in the world. There is            2. How much does he earn a day?
nothing (a) … . Every morning, when his alarm clock goes off, the                   3. What is special about his house?
software tycoon is $20 million richer than when he went to bed. His                 4. What is unusual about his relationships with women?
wealth is based on his company, Microsoft, (b) … . He has a personal                5. What did he do to the computer at Harvard?
fortune (c) … , which is more than the annual economic output of over               6. What is the secret of his success?
a hundred countries.                                                                7. What is Windows?
        He is not shy about spending it. He has built a mansion (d) …
(e) … and TV monitors, some taking up an entire wall. Visitors are                  Block 4
given a smart card (f) … , so that, as they wander from room to room,               WINNING THE LOTTERY
their favourite pictures will appear on the screens, and the music they
like will play. The card is programmed so that only the most intimate               SPEAKING
friends can open all the doors.
        This cold-blooded approach to human relationships also seems                Work with a partner and answer these questions:
to be true of his love life. When he went out with an ex-girlfriend, Ann            1. What are considered lucky charms in your country? What is
Winblad, (g) … , the couple conducted much of their relationship by           considered unlucky?
going on virtual dates. Each would drive alone to the same movie at                 2. Have you got a lucky charm? Are you lucky? Have you ever
the same time in different towns, and then talk about it afterwards on        won anything? If so, what?
their mobiles, (h) … . When finally he got married, he and his wife,                3. Do you play your country's national lottery? If you do, how
Melinda, signed a prenuptial agreement (i) … to go on an annual               do you choose your numbers? What's the most you've ever won? If
holiday with his ex-lover, Ann,(j) … .                                        you don't play, why not?
        Gates has been called 'King of the Nerds', but this simply isn't            4. What would you do if you won in the lottery?
fair. In the ninth grade at school, he got A's in all the subjects he took,
(k) … in the nation. Gates went on to Harvard University, where he                  READING
managed to be in the same class as the girls (l) … by inserting a piece              1. Read the article by Carinthia West, which was published
of software into the college computer. But he never finished college.         in Tatler magazine. (Tatler is a British magazine which contains
When he left, he knew exactly (m) … . He started up his own computer          articles on high society; which restaurants to eat in, the right
company.                                                                      people to meet, and the most fashionable clothes to be wearing).
        The reason (n)... is because Gates saw that his fortune lay in        Answer these questions:
software, not hardware. He became a billionaire at 31, and since then                  1. How does the writer usually choose her lottery numbers?

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