When he was just 19, Michael Dell started the company that would dominate the industry.
At the time, IBM personal computers sold in stores for about ＄3,000. After taking them apart and rebuilding them, Dell realized the components (零部件) could be bought for one-fourth the price. Soon he was buying components to reduce the cost. A good business decision, but it meant his room was starting to look like a mechanic’s shop.
“I was quite excited about the possibilities for personal computers and how they could change society. I had this idea to sell the products directly to the users over the phone”, he said. College plans and his parents’ expectations bothered him a lot. But Michael Dell was determined. He drove off to the University of Texas at Austin in August 1983 in a car he’d bought with earnings from selling newspapers. He was surprised that his mother wasn’t suspicious about the three computers in the backseat. By November, news reached his parents that he wasn’t attending classes. On a surprise visit to Austin, they caught their son on spot. Michael Dell told his dad that he wanted to compete with IBM.
Although Michael agreed to focus on his studies, the business chances and the timing couldn’t have been better. The public was becoming more interested in computers, but no one was producing them. In early May, a week before his final exams, Michael started Dell computer Corporation with ＄1,000. He took his exams, and then dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year. It was time to try out his direct-to-customer business model.
“Three years later”, Dell says, “we had already achieved annual sales of about ＄150 million, I was 22 years old then.”
小题1:What does the underlined word in paragraph 1 mean?
A．affect
B．develop
C．support
D．lead小题2:Which of the following is true according to paragraph 2?
A．Dell discovered a good chance to make money
B．Dell could buy a computer at one-fourth the price
C．IBM made little money from personal computers
D．Dell rebuilt computers in a mechanic’s shop小题3:When Dell’s parents learned about his absence from class, they .
A．tried to help with his business
B．were too suspicious to accept it
C．wanted him to go hack to class
D．encouraged him to compete with IBM小题4:It can be inferred from the article that .
A．Dell was tired of his college life
B．Dell was not devoted to his study at college
C．Dell’s college life helped him greatly
D．Dell didn’t finish his final exams小题5:Dell’s experiences show that .
A．determination and opportunity lead to success
B．family support plays an import in one’s success
C．there’s no need for all of us to go to college
D．we should insist on whatever we are doing
