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
I. Complete the sentences with since or for.
1. Mr. Dan has been in this school __since _____ 2002.
2. Now Samuel is taking a computer course. He has been taking this course ____for___ two months.
3. I hope the weather gets better soon. It’s been raining __for_____ three hours.
4. The students have been doing the test __since _____ 8 o’clock.
5. I haven’t got any letters from Jim ___since ____ September.
6. I have known my friend, Jessica, _____for__ many years.
7. They have been staying at that hotel ___since ____ last Sunday.
8. Miss Lou has been an English teacher ___for____ ten years.
9. India has been an independent country ___since ____ 1947.
10. Roger had an accident. He has been in hospital __for____ five weeks.