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2014年理工类职称英语A级新增文章以及2013年未考文章 阅读判断 第十一篇 Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity（A） I’ve always been an optimist and I suppose it is rooted in1 my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. For as long as I can remember, I抳e loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today.2 But it changed my life. When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago，we had a vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home”, which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change the world. And they have. And after 30 years, I抦 still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade. I believe that computers are the most incredibletool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness ?to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn抰 solve on their own. Computers have transformed how we learn，giving kids everywhere a window into all of the world’ s knowledge. They’re helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.3 Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 搕ap-dancing to work?. My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me 搕ap-dancing to work?is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime抯 worth of photos, and they say, 揑 didn抰 know you could do that with a PC5! ?But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC，there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our