Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions . Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18. The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .
Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.
The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.
Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.
He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.
David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.
"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.
"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."
David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."
He left school after taking O-levels because ____.
A. he was afraid of getting too old to start computing
B. he did not enjoy school
C. he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help him
D. he wanted to earn a lot of money
Tạm dịch:
Harris Aslam là một chàng trai trẻ đầy tham vọng, bỏ học năm 13 tuổi để làm việc trong công việc kinh doanh tạp hóa của gia đình. Bây giờ, ở tuổi mười tám, anh sở hữu ba cửa hàng ở Kirkcaldy, Scotland, thị trấn nơi anh sinh ra và đang phát triển mạnh mẽ. Nhưng Harris có tham vọng lớn hơn và muốn thử thách mới. Công việc hiện anh đang ứng tuyển là Giám đốc điều hành của Nisa Retail, một công ty kinh doanh tạp hóa có doanh thu hàng năm khoảng 1,6 tỷ bảng Anh! Đây là công việc thường thu hút những doanh nhân trung niên, không phải thanh niên mười tám tuổi.
He is applying for the job of CEO of Nisa Retail.
(Anh ấy đang ứng tuyển vào vị trí Giám đốc điều hành của Công ty bán lẻ Nisa.)