Question

At five he was collecting old newspapers to make money.And when he was fifteen he signed his schoolmates up to start a baby-sitting circle(保姆中心).

  Now 20,third- year Cambridge University student,Peter Blackburn is the managing director of company with a 30,000 pounds plan.And he thinks he will make more than $15,000 by next summer.

  He set up Peter Blackburn Company last year to bring out a new color term-planner(學(xué)期計(jì)劃)that now students all over the UK are using.

  “I felt that most of the planners going around were pret ty unimaginative,”he says.”I believed that I could do a better job and decided to have a go.”

  Blackburn agrees that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer studies course at university.While fellow students are out with their friends,he keeps in touch with his business office in Lancashire by mobile phone.Before he set up the company he spent one holiday preparing a plan that would persuade the bank to lend him money.

  “Most students work hard for a good degree because they believe that will help them get a job to support themselves,”he says.”I work hard at my company,because that is what will support me next year,after I leave college.”

  Friends believe that Blackburn will make one million pounds within five years.

  He is not quite so sure,however.”There is a lot to be done yet,”he says.

69.When he was quite young,Blackburn______.

 A.already made a lot of money    

B.already had a business brain

 C.was already a managing director of a company

 D.already set up his own business

70.The underline expression in the fourth paragraph “have a go”means______.

 A.give up his job and have a new one  B.leave the company

 C.have a try                      D.develop my business quickly

71.Which of the following best explains why Blackburn works hard at his company?

 A.He wants to do more business practice before he leaves college.

 B.He wants to make more money before he leaves college.

 C.He wants to get a good job like most students after he leaves college.

 D.He depends on the company for his living in the future.

72.Choose the right order of the facts given in the passage.

 a.He spent his holiday preparing a plan. b.He collected newspapers.

 c.He set up his own company.        d.He asked the bank for money

 e.He set up a baby-sitting circle

 A.e,b,c,a,d       B.b,e,a,d,c        C.b,e,d,a,c        D.b,e,c,a,d

Answer 1

BCDB