7 Practice C
Use the information below to write a paragraph about Bill Gates.
1955 Bill Gates was born, the second child in a middle-class Seattle family
1968 At age 13, he became interested in writing computer programmes
1975 Gates and his school friend Allen started a programming business called
Microsoft
1980 IBM asked Microsoft to write operating system (called MS-DOS) for its new PC
1985 Microsoft launched Windows operating system
1995 Gates became the richest man in world
2006 He stepped down from working at Microsoft to focus on his charitable foundation
8 Vocabulary revision
(a) Decide if the following are nouns or adjectives, and then complete the table with
the missing words.
- liquidity
- reluctant
- stable
- prosperity
- controversial
- conclusive
68 Part 1: The Writing Process
1 It has been argued that a rise in the rate of home ownership can
increase the rate of unemployment.