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Unite 8 Bill Gates and His Empire Close Reading Exercises I. 1. of 2. in, on, of, to 3. in, with, of 4. Of, in 5. to, for II. The others are all trying like mad to get somewhere else before the market changes and their businesses collapse. Each man consciously worked to create an industry out of something that everyone else thought was a pure waste of time. Cadillac, Oldsmobile – that’s it, or almost it. The same is true for a list of Microsoft competitors from 1975. But a factor not to be dismissed in this industrial survival game is sheer determination. Their objective was to be here fifteen or fifty years later, still being the leaders and running the companies. This is not because they expect to fail in their current ventures but because they expect to lose interest and go on to something new. But then Ford intended his cars to be the best, but he resigned, instead, to the idea that they would be making the most popular cars. It’s not like that at Microsoft yet, but there are quite a bit of emotions there, and Chairman Bill, after all, is only a young man. 10. As it was sliding towards a major market disaster, Microsoft was saved only through the efforts of some courageous people. 11. The program manager for Omega, who was so single-mindedly concerned with bringing together his enormous project, reported only good news to his superiors. III. He was ahead of his time about foreign language teaching. While most people were fascinated by language labs, he was working on teaching a foreign language in a computer lab. China’s men’s football team was a great disappointment in the past. Their scores at international games hardly came close to what millions of football fans expected of them. He could not afford a car that time and had to settle for going to work on his bike. Some people believe that with the rapid development of computer software sponsored by big companies like Microsoft, there is room for innovat