1. What people is the text about? 2. What did Bill Gates say about capitalism? 3. When did Bill Gates create his first computer programme? 4. What programs did he and his classmates create at school? 5. What did he do in 1981? 6. What was the result of the work for Bill Gates? 7. What did his ability to react quickly to innovations give him? 8. What was the result of Microsoft Company in the early days? 9. What innovations did Bill Gates make? 10. What were and are his competing companies in the market? 11. What products did the competing companies produce? 12. What happened in 2005? 13. What was Steve Jobs? 14. When was he born? 15. What family was he born in? 16. Who adopted Steve Jobs? 17. What was his attitude to his adoptive parents? 18. What happened with his biological parents? 19. Where did he spend his childhood? 20. Did Steve Jobs have any problems with education? 21. When did he get acquainted with Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak? 22. When did Steve Jobs enter Reed College in Portland, Oregon? 24. What happened in six months after entering? 25. What happened in 1976? 26. How does the world recognize Steve Jobs right now? 27. What was the reason of his death?
Exercise 6. Translate from Russian into English.
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Exercise 7. TranslatefromRussianintoEnglish.
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Exercise 8. Match words.
BILL GATES
| first computer program | InternetExplorer |
| payroll system | |
| traffic-data systems | PC |
| launch the company | MicrosoftWindows |
| licensing MS-DOS | iPod |
| compatibles | Yahoo |
| innovations | |
| software solutions | |
| Windows operating system | Apple |
| networked computers | |
| non-computer devices | |
| Internet service provider | |
| dominance in the markets for office productivity and PC operating systems | PC |
| word processor package | Windows |
| spread sheet category | |
| database and e-mail packages | Firefox |
| Microsoft Windows operating system | |
| core PC software applications | - |
| up-coming markets | / |
| Browser market | |
| Internet Explorer | |
| MS-DOS | |
| Yahoo | |
| search engine wars | |
| Firefox browser | |
| iPod | |
| Apple PCs | |
| business skills |
STEVE JOBS
| technology visionary | |
| co-founder | |
| chairman | |
| chief executive officer | |
| graduate students | |
| adoption | Intel |
| lasers | |
| rudimentary electronics | Apple |
| radios | |
| televisions | |
| technical tinkering | |
| accountant | |
| formal schooling | |
| computer whiz kid | |
| a course on calligraphy | |
| auditing classes | |
| food money | |
| free meals | |
| electronics industry worker | |
| Apple computer | |
| then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer | |
| personal computer revolution | |
| career in the computer and consumer electronics fields | |
| co-founded | |
| served as chief executive | |
| board of directors | |
| previously treated pancreatic cancer |
