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."
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."
Why is David different from other young people at his age?
A. He earns an extremely high salary.
B. He lives at home with his parents.
C. He does not go out much.
D. He is not unemployed.
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Trả lời:

Đáp án A
Câu hỏi cùng đoạn
Câu 2:
David's greatest problem is _______
A. learning to drive.
B. spending his salary.
C. inventing computer games.
D. making the banks treat him as an adult.

Đáp án B
Câu 3:
He was employed by the company because _______
A. he works very hard.
B. he had written some computer programs.
C. he had worked in a computer shop.
D. he had learnt to use computers at school

Đáp án B
Câu 4:
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.

Đáp án C
Câu 5:
Why does David think he might retire early?
A. He wants to stop working when he is a millionaire.
B. You have to be young to write computer programs.
C. He thinks his firm might go bankrupt.
D. He thinks computer games might not always sell so well.

Đáp án D
Câu 6:
The word " pessimistic " in the reading passage probably means_______
A. easy
B. negative
C. optimistic
D. positive

Đáp án B
Câu 7:
The word " releases " in the reading passage can be replaced by_______
A. imports
B. holds
C. discharges
D. dissolves

Đáp án C
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Câu 1
A. thrown
B. mailed
C. posted
D. sent
Lời giải
Đáp án D
Câu 2
A. It may contain uncontaminated microbes
B. It can be studied using radio waves
C. It has already been contaminated.
D. It may have elevated levels of ultraviolet light.
Lời giải
Đáp án A
Câu 3
A. numerous
B. sum
C. amount
D. great deal
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Câu 4
A. Having just passed your exam making your parents happy.
B. You have just passed your exam makes your parents happy.
C. That you have just passed your exam makes your parents happy.
D. You have just passed your exam which it makes your parents happy.
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Câu 5
A. After you can completely avoid stress in your life, you need to find ways to cope with it.
B. As long as you can completely avoid stress in your lives, you need to find ways to cope with it.
C. As you cannot completely avoid stress in your life, you need to find ways to cope with it.
D. Because stress can completely be avoided in your life, you need to find ways to cope with it.
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Câu 6
A. postures
B. expressions
C. thought
D. gestures
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