Problem: OPTIONS:
- Dell was tired of his college life
- Dell was not devoted to his study at college
- Dell's college life helped him greatly
- Dell didn't finish his final exams
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When he was just 19, Michael Dell started the company that would _ the industry. At the time, IBM personal computers sold in stores for about $3,000. After taking them apart and rebuilding them, Dell realized the components could be bought for one-fourth the price. Soon he was buying components to reduce the cost. A good business decision, but it meant his room was starting to look like a mechanic's shop. "I was quite excited about the possibilities for personal computers and how they could change society. I had this idea to sell the products directly to the users over the phone", he said. College plans and his parents' expectations bothered him a lot. But Michael Dell was determined. He drove off to the University of Texas at Austin in August 1983 in a car he'd bought with earnings from selling newspapers. He was surprised that his mother wasn't suspicious about the three computers in the backseat. By November, news reached his parents that he wasn't attending classes. On a surprise visit to Austin, they caught their son on spot. Michael Dell told his dad that he wanted to compete with IBM. Although Michael agreed to focus on his studies, the business chances and the timing couldn't have been better. The public was becoming more interested in computers, but no one was producing them. In early May, a week before his final exams, Michael started Dell computer Corporation with $1,000. He took his exams, and then dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year. It was time to try out his direct-to-customer business model. "Three years later", Dell says, "we had already achieved annual sales of about $150 million, I was 22 years old then." Question: It can be inferred from the article that _ . Answer:
Answer: Dell was not devoted to his study at college
Problem: OPTIONS:
- Watch a ballgame and have a picnic.
- Have a picnic and see a movie.
- Listen to concert and watch a ballgame.
- Seeing a movie and listening to a concert.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Enjoyable Saturday Do your children enjoy interesting stories,funny games,and exciting dances?Captain Goodfellow will be ready to do all these things with children at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:00,free. Movies at the Museum Two European movies will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre.See Broken Window at 1:30.The Workers will be at 3:45.For further information,call 4987898. International Picnic Are you tired of eating the same food every day?Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food a11 over the world.Delicious and not expensive.Noon to 5:00 P.M. Take Me out to the Ballgame It's November,and Saturday night(7:00--9:00)is your last chance to see the Red Birds this year.Get your tickets at the game.It might be cold.Don't forget sweaters and jackets. Do You Want to Hear "The Zoo"? "The Zoo",a popular rock group from Australia,will give their first US concert this Saturday night,at 8 at Rose Hall,City College. Question: Mr. Turner wants to have a nice Saturday.Which is NOT possible for him to do? Answer:
Answer: Listen to concert and watch a ballgame.
Problem: OPTIONS:
- they will become problem children
- they will take no interest in their studies
- they will be not fit for the present society
- they will be poor in mental and physical health
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Like most parents, I worry that my child isn't getting enough sleep. Now it turns out that doctors have been warning kids don't get enough sleep for over a century--long before iPads, and texting robbed children of peaceful sleep. What's more, there's no solid scientific basis for pediatricians' recommendations on the amount of time children need to sleep. That's the word from researchers in Australia. It turns out that children are sleeping less than those in days of old. The researchers, at the University of South Australia's Health and Use of Time Group, found that kids' nightly sleep time declined by about three-quarters of a minute each year for the period they studied. My daughter was more likely to beg for a few more minutes of Angry Birds before bedtime.That means nowadays my daughter is sleeping about 50 minutes a night less than her grandfather who had to get up to milk the cows at 5:30 am. What hasn't changed is the predictions from health professionals on the consequences of lack of sleep. "This is a sleepless age and more and more... we are turning night into day," one expert said in 1905. Back then, sleep was seen as a way to restore "wearied brain tissue". Children and "clever" children were thought to be most at risk, and most in need of energy-restoring sleep. The words may be different today, but the threats are pretty much the same. Parents are told that children risk mental and physical problems, and even obesity, if they don't get enough sleep. So the Australians looked to see how much sleep kids do need. The answer is the biggest surprise of this study--no one really knows. "There is almost no exact evidence for proper sleep for children," the authors write. Their work was published in the journal Pediatrics. Question: If children suffer from lack of sleep for long . Answer:
Answer:
they will be poor in mental and physical health