Bill Gates __36___   on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very   ___37___  boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and maths.  ___38___  he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers ___39___  very large machines. Once(一度) he was very interested  __40___ a very old computer. He and some of his friends __41____ lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked .out a software program (软件程) with the old machine. Bill ___42__  it for $ 4200 when he was only 17.
In 1973, Bill ___43___    Harvard University(哈弗大学). In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company(公司) called Microsoft. Bill began his company in 1975  __44____  his friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing( 开发)the software for personal（个人的） computers: They improved (改进)the software to __45____  it easier for people to use computers.

Bill Gates is head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men. He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. He was a very bright boy. Science and math were his two favorite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist.

Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13. At that time, a computer was a very large machine. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software program. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17.
In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In 1975, Bill and his partners developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. BASIC was a success. Then Bill left Harvard to work for Microsoft, a company he started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing software for personal computers. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers. After many years of hard work, Microsoft becomes one of the most successful companies. And Bill Gates also becomes one of the richest businessmen in the world.
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Lion is a special animal to Chinese people. A couple of stone lions, a male (雄性) and a female (雌性), can often be seen in front of the gates of old buildings. The male lion is on the left with his right paw (手掌) on a ball, and the female on the right. And her left paw is touching a baby animal.
The lion is the king in the animal world because he is powerful. The ball shows the country or the family will be together forever, and the baby animal with the female shows that you will have many children.
The stone lions were also used to show the families were powerful. If you had no money or power, you couldn’t put the stone lions in front of your houses.
It was also popular to make bridges with stone lions. The best known of this is the Lugou Bridge (also as Marco Polo Bridge), built from 1189 to 1192. The stone lions on the bridge are most famous. Maybe there are 485 lions in all, maybe there are 498 or 501. A famous saying is that “the lions on the Lugou Bridge are uncountable(不可数的).”
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Bill Gates is a very important person in the computer industry. He has been chief officer of Microsoft Company for several years. He is also the richest person in the United States. How did he do it?

He learned a lot from his parents. While Bill was going to school, his father went to college, got a degree, and became a successful lawyer.     1      . His mother was a very busy teacher, but she also loved going to parties. From this, he learned something else: if you want to work hard and play hard, you have to make a schedule.

     2      . While most of his friends were playing, Bill read all of the World Book Encyclopedia and finished it when he was 8 years old.     3      . He used to play a lot of sports — swimming， water-skiing, tennis. When Bill got older, he spent more and more time working and playing on a computer.

Before he was twenty, Bill developed the world’s first computer language for the personal computer.     4      . He thought that every home was going to have a computer, and every computer would need software — his software. He said, “ I’m going to make my first million dollars on software by the time I’m 25.” And he did!