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The Man Who Can Buy Anything Task 1 Read the text and fill in the gaps with the clauses below. a) that can be run by clicking b) which put him among the top 10 students c) whose wealth is based on his company, Microsoft d) that is packed with high-tech gadgets e) he can't afford f) what he wanted g) they like h) where he managed to be Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. There is nothing (1) ........ Every morning the software businessman, (2) ......., is $20 million richer than when he went to bed. He is not shy about spending it. He has a house overlooking Lake Washington (3) ....... and TV monitors. Visitors are given a smart card encoded with their personal preferences. As they walk from room to room, their favourite pictures will appear on the screens, and the music (4)...... will play. Gates has been called 'King of the Nerds', but this simply is not fair. In the ninth grade at school he got A's in all the subjects he took, (5) ........ in the nation. Gates went on to Harvard University, (6) ........ in the same class as the girls he liked by inserting a piece of software into the college computer. But he never finished college. When he left, he knew exactly (7) .... He started up his own computer company. ***** He became a billionaire at 31, and since then Microsoft has created Windows, which is a system (8)........ on icons with a mouse. Now a multi-billionaire whose software is used in two-thirds of the world's computers, is working on other revolutionary projects.​

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The Man Who Can Buy Anything

Task 1 Read the text and fill in the gaps with the clauses below:

a) that can be run by clicking

b) which put him among the top 10 students

c) whose wealth is based on his company, Microsoft

d) that is packed with high-tech gadgets

e) he can't afford

f) what he wanted

g) they like

h) where he managed to be

Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. There is nothing (f) he can't afford. Every morning the software businessman, (c) , is $20 million richer than when he went to bed. He is not shy about spending it. He has a house overlooking Lake Washington (d) and TV monitors. Visitors are given a smart card encoded with their personal preferences. As they walk from room to room, their favourite pictures will appear on the screens, and the music (g) will play. Gates has been called 'King of the Nerds', but this simply is not fair. In the ninth grade at school he got A's in all the subjects he took, (b) . Gates went on to Harvard University, (h) in the same class as the girls he liked by inserting a piece of software into the college computer. But he never finished college. When he left, he knew exactly (f) . He started up his own computer company. ***** He became a billionaire at 31, and since then Microsoft has created Windows, which is a system (a) . Now a multi-billionaire whose software is used in two-thirds of the world's computers, is working on other revolutionary projects.