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David Jones and His Salary 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 (支票卡). 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 home computer market each month. But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Despite his salary, earned buy inventing new programs, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, buy a house, or obtain credit cards (信用卡). He lives with his parents in Liverpool. His company has to pay ￡150 a month in taxi fares to get him the fi A. Because he earns an extremely high salary. B. Because he is not unemployed. C. Because he does not go out much. D. Because he lives at home wit th his parents. [单项选择]A. He had lost his driver’s license.
B. His identification wasn’t acceptable. C. He didn’t have his checkbook. D. The ticket office was closed. [填空题]His success was obtained mainly through his good business sense.
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[单项选择]A. She’s surprised at his decision. B. She’s pleased with his decision.
C. She thinks he is warm-hearted. D. She’s angry with him. [填空题]How did he spend his spare time
He spent all his spare time （）. [单项选择]Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family.
Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended only when she slept. The father and his sister, Chris’s Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing. The continuous exchanges further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an unendurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago have lifted them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to Eng-land and Oxford University Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of A. They were bad managers. B. They had been treated unfairly. C. They had always been poor. D. They didn’t maintain their house properly. 我来回答: 提交
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