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大学英语四级模拟考试试卷1 （2009年6月） Part I Writing 30 minutes 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。 Part II Reading Comprehension Skimming and Scanning 15 minutes Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. 　For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A , B , C and D . For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.　　Bill Gates has retired. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world’s richest philanthropic 慈善的 organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He will still be Microsoft’s chairman and the largest shareholder, but June 27, 2008 was his last day as a full-time worker at the software giant, marking the unofficial end of his career as a business leader.　　 What a career it has been! Mr. Gates has been an animating force behind the personal computer revolution, helping to build a huge global industry and design successful products like Windows and Office, used every day in offices and homes around the world.　　 The Harvard dropout was the wealthiest person on the planet for years —worth more than $100 billion in 1999 —though his fortune is now about half that because of the decline of Microsoft’s shares and his continuing donations to his foundation, which is focused on global health and education.　　 Despite his success, Mr. Gates is moving on as the company he co-founded in 1975 is struggling to find its way. The focus of technology has shifted from PCs to the Internet, altering the old rules of competition that were so lucratively 获利多地 mastered by Microsoft. For millions of users, mobile devices like cellphones are beginning to edge out PCs as the tool of choice for many computing tasks. And Google, the front runner in the current wave of Internet computing, has taken away the title of hightech leadership from Microsoft. Although Mr. Gates will spend one day a week at the company, it will be u