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Sometimes, something that is considered to be negative turns out to be an advantage on the job. Though he is only l8 years old and blind, Suleyman Gokyigit is among the top computer technicians and programmers at InteliData Technologies Corp., a large software company with several offices across the United States.

"After our company united with another one last October, two different computer networks were driving us crazy," recalls Douglas Braun, the InteliData president. "We couldn't even send e-mail to each other." In three weeks Mr Gokyigit created the software needed to connect the two networks. "None of the company's 350 other employees could have done the job in three months," says Mr. Braun. " Suleyman can 'see' into the heart of the computer."

Mr. Gokyigfi's gift, as Mr. Braun calls it, is an unusual ability to form an idea of the inside of a machine. "The computer permits me to reach out into the world and do almost anything I want to do," says Mr. Gokyigit

The young programmer is _ as well, thanks partly to a highly developed sense of touch. Mitzi Nowakowski, an office manager at InteliData, remembers how he easily disconnected and reconnected their computer systems during a move last year. "Through feel, Suleyman can find the position of connectors, pins and wires much faster than most other people with sight," he says.

Much of the student programmer's speed comes from his ability not to be interrupted while at the computer. When typing, he listens carefully to the synthesizer . His long, thin fingers fly over the keyboard. "Nothing seems to shake his attention," says Mrs. Nowakowski, his boss.

Mr. Gokyigit is the only company employee who is available 24 hours a day. "We consider him our top problem solver." says Mr. Braun.
1. How old is Suleyman Gokyigit?
2. where is he employed?
3. what is different about him?
4. what type of work does he do?
5. how long did it take him to merge the two systems?
6. how long would it have taken someone else?
7. is he frequently disturbed while working?
8. how many hours per day is he availble?
9. what do his coworkers call him?
10. who is Douglas Braun?
11. who is the office manager?
12. what does he listen to while typing?
13. which of his senses have become highly developed?
14. what do computers enable him to do?
15. how did he unhook the computers when they moved?
16. was he slower than a sighted person?
17. is he a fast typist?

Numbered answers:
1. 18
2. InteliData Technologies Corp
3. he is only l8 years old and blind,
4. computer technician
5. three weeks
6. three months
7. no
8. 24
9. our top problem solver
10. the InteliData president
11. Mitzi Nowakowski
12. a synthesizer
13. touch
14. reach out into the world and do almost anything I want to do
15. Through feel, Suleyman can find the position of connectors, pins and wires much faster than most other people with sight," he says.
16. no
17. It mentions programing speed but not specifically typing

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Steve Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, wasn't smart when he was at school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made trouble with his schoolmates. Then he dropped out . But he was full of new ideas. After he left college, Steve Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life. Steve Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple computer with his friend . He chose the name"Apple"just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden. His Apple computer was such a great success that Steve Jobs soon became famous all over the world. ,.
1. Who went to India?
2. why did he go there?
3. where did he live after he got back from there?
4. on a what?
5. for how long?
6. what new kind of thing did he create?
7. what year did he start this?
8. did he do it alone?
9. with who then?
10. what did he call the new thing?
11. why that name?
12. doing what?
13. was he a good or bad student?
14. was he one of the smarter kids?
15. did he misbehave?
16. with whom did he cause issues?
17. did he complete school?
18. what was he full of?
19. what did he do after leaving university?
20. how long did he work there?

Numbered answers:
1. Steve Jobs
2. To get some new ideas and give him a change in life.
3. California
4. a farm
5. for a year
6. computer
7. 1975
8. no
9. with his friend
10. "Apple"
11. because it could help him to remember a happy summer
12. being in an apple tree garden
13. bad
14. no
15. yes
16. his schoolmates
17. no
18. new ideas
19. He worked as a video game designer
20. several months

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CHAPTER XXIX

"WOUNDED AND MISSING"

"Battered but Not Broken" was the headline in Monday's paper, and Susan repeated it over and over to herself as she went about her work. The gap caused by the St. Quentin disaster had been patched up in time, but the Allied line was being pushed relentlessly back from the territory they had purchased in 1917 with half a million lives. On Wednesday the headline was "British and French Check Germans"; but still the retreat went on. Back--and back--and back! Where would it end? Would the line break again--this time disastrously?

On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.

"Well, we have got one week over--now for the next," said Susan staunchly.

"I feel like a prisoner on the rack when they stopped turning it," Miss Oliver said to Rilla, as they went to church on Easter morning. "But I am not off the rack. The torture may begin again at any time."

"I doubted God last Sunday," said Rilla, "but I don't doubt him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh."

Nevertheless her faith was often tried in the dark spring that followed. Armageddon was not, as they had hoped, a matter of a few days. It stretched out into weeks and months. Again and again Hindenburg struck his savage, sudden blows, with alarming, though futile success. Again and again the military critics declared the situation extremely perilous. Again and again Cousin Sophia agreed with the military critics.
1. How many people died in 1917?
2. What was Monday's headline?
3. Wednesday's?
4. Who was retreating?
5. Who did this concern?
6. Did it seem like there was an end in sight?
7. What was Saturday's headline?
8. Was this a relief?
9. For which townspeople?
10. Who temporarily lost her faith?
11. Had she regained it?
12. Who was she discussing this with?
13. On what date?
14. At what location?
15. As time went on, did the war get less dangerous?
16. According to whom?
17. Did Sophia agree with them?
18. Who continued to strike?
19. How long did it continue?
Numbered answers:
1. half a million
2. "Battered but Not Broken"
3. "British and French Check Germans"
4. unknown
5. Susan
6. No.
7. "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked,"
8. Yes.
9. Ingleside
10. Rilla
11. Yes.
12. Miss Oliver
13. Easter
14. church
15. No.
16. military critics
17. Yes.
18. Hindenburg
19. months