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o them by radio from the puter centre in the City Hall. The exact place of the burning building and its size, type and any other details are clear to them. The Kansas City puter system also has a medical record of each of the city39。s 900 fire fighters. This kind of information is especially useful when a fire fighter is injured. With the information, doctors at hospital can treat the injured fire fighters more quickly and easily. The fire fighters themselves greatly appreciate (感激 ) the puter39。s help. They know about possible danger ahead of them and can prepare for it. Many times the puter information helps to save lives and property (財產(chǎn) ). Sometimes the lives are those of fire fighters themselves. Mike Horan, a fire fighter captain, says, I feel as if the puter is watching over me to help me if I get hurt. 41. Which of the following is the best title of the text? A. Large Computers in Kansas, Missouri. B. Computers Help Fire Fighters. C. Important Information for Fire Fighters. D. The Speed of the Computers. 42. What is the best help if you want to know the information about the street address in Kansas? A. The fire fighter. B. The policeman. C. The puter. D. The map. 43. The fire fighters can get information about a burning place which is sent by A. the radio B. the puter C. the City Hall D. the centre of the city 44. Why can the doctors treat the fire fighters quickly and easily? A. The hospital has a very good puter. B. The fire fighters can know about possible danger early. C. The puters can prepare everything for them. D. Medical records in the puters help them a lot. 45. From Mike Horan39。s words, we can learn that the fire fighters themselves[來源 :Z167。 xx167。 k .Co m] A. are being taken care of by the puters B. have been saved by the puters many times C. always get hurt in saving people39。s lives D. are trying hard to stop a fire burning (B) Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle attorney (律師 ). Mary Gates, their late mother, was a school teacher. Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal puter soft ware, programming puters at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft39。s president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version (版 本 ) of the programming language BASIC for the first microputerthe MITS Astair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies fulltime to Microsoft, a pany he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal puter would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began develop