精听建议：

先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

Lesson67 Bill Gates

Most high school students would be delighted to be accepted by Harvard University， but Harvard had little to offer to young Bill Gates． After several semesters， he 1 and went to work． Finally he made himself the richest man in the world．
2 ， his career started in high school where he discovered the amazing world of computers． He quickly learned the programming language called BASIC． He spent hours finding out what a computer could do． 3 ， he and Paul Allen， a classmate， became local experts on computer programming．
After they graduated from high school， the friends went separate ways． Allen stayed in Seattle and Gates went to Boston to attend Harvard． At Harvard， however， Gates was not a serious student． He spent most of his time in the university computer centre．
The two young men decided to form a small company in 4 ．
They called it Microsoft． They let the computer company license their operating system for $30 per computer． 5 ， they earned $16，000． This was enough to convince Gates to quit Harvard and work full-time．
Microsoft became a public company in 1981． The company grew quickly and Gates became very rich． Gates may have slowed down a little， but he still works hard to stay ahead of computer hardware， creating operating systems for computers that are not yet in the stores．

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