东北大学《大学英语》课件-第1讲.pdf

Text C William(Bill)H.Gates is the former chairman and now the chief architect of Microsoft Corporation,the leading provider of software for the personal computer.Microsoft had revenues of$40 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2005,and employs more than 50,000 people in over 60 countries.Born on October 28,1955,Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle.Their father,William H.Gates,II,is a lawyer.Their mother,Mary Gates,taught at the University of Washington.Gates attended a public elementary school and the private Lakeside School.There he began his career in personal computer software,programming computers at age 13.William H.Gates,The Chief Architect of the Microsoft Corporation Text C In 1973,Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman,where he developed the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer-the MITS Altair.In his junior year,Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft,a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen.Guided by the belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desk-top and in every home,they began developing software for personal computers.Gates vision regarding personal computing has been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Gates is actively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft and plays an important role in the technical development of new products.A significant portion of his time is devoted to meeting customers and staying in contact with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.Text C Under Gates leadership,Microsofts mission has been to continue to advance and improve software technology and to make it easier,more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers.The company is committed to the long-term view and has invested more than$6 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year.In 1995,Gates wrote The Road Ahead,which explained his vision of where information technology will take society.The Road Ahead held the No.1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.Published in more than 20 countries,the book sold more than 400,000 copies in China alone.In 1996,Gates thoroughly revised The Road Ahead to reflect his view that interactive networks are a major milestone in human history.Gates is donating his proceeds from the book to a fund that supports teachers worldwide who are using computers in their classrooms.Text C In addition to his passion for computers,Gates is interested in biotechnology.Gates is a keen reader and enjoys playing golf.He also founded Corbis Corporation,which is developing one of the largest resources of visual information in the world-a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the world.Gates also has invested in Teledesic,a company that is working on an ambitious plan to launch hundreds of satellites to provide a worldwide two-way broadband telecommunications service.Since Microsoft became a public company,Gates has donated more than$28 billion to charities,including$24 billion to the William H.Gates Foundation.The focus of Gates giving is in three areas:education,population issues and access to technology.Gates was married on January 1,1994,to Melinda French Gates.Their first child,Jennifer Katherine,was born on April 26,1996 and a son,Rory John Gates,was born on May 23,1999.A third child,Phoebe Adele Gates was born in 2002.(565 words)architect n.a person who makes an important plan of any kind;a person who plans new buildings and sees that they are built properly 设计师；建筑师 Frank Lloyd Wright,himself later a famous architect,worked in Sullivans offices as a young man.Besides being a city planner and architect the new president was a writer,a scientist,and an inventor.corporation n.a group of people permitted by law to act as one body,esp.for the purposes of business,with rights and duties separate from those of its members 公司 The attention paid to human resource management can be seen in the corporation.The Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest and best-known computer companies in the world.provider n.a person,a company or a factory that supplies sth.needed or useful 供给者，供应者 Tencent is the biggest online instant messaging service provider in Asia.An access provider is a company that provides the technical services that allow people to use the Internet,usually in exchange for a monthly payment.software n.the programs,routines,and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation 软件 Without software,a computer is nothing more than useless glass,wire and plastic.For some reason,many people do not consider it a crime not to pay for computer software.revenue n.the income of a government from all sources appropriated for the payment of the public expenses 国家的收入；税收 Personal income tax took up a 7 per cent of the countrys total tax revenue last year.In tax revenue alone,the government