Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid (N.America)
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Tech giants Facebook and Google are in competition to attract the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a game called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch in October. The addictive game managed to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook's internship department for a tour of the company's headquarters in California. He is also being wooed by Google, whose vice president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.
Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries across the world. They will collaborate on a 36-hour project to create a sellable product. They will also listen to featured speakers from the technology and hacking world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly ambitious. He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that: "[Pasternak's] iPhone app was extremely impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."
1. TRUE / FALSE:Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
a.Google and Facebook are wooing a 15-year-old U.S. app developer.T / F
b.The game designed by the teen is called the Possible Rush.T / F
c.The app has been downloaded more than half a million times.T / F
d.The vice-president of Google invited the teen to the Google campus.T / F
e.Another 449 teens are attending a hacking event with the whizzkid.T / F
f.High-schoolers from 36 countries are attending the event.T / F
g.The high-schoolers will listen to speakers talking about hacking.T / F
h.The app works only on Andoid phones and not iPhones.T / F
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1.Which two tech giants are wooing the teenager?
2.What is the name of the app designed by the teenager?
3.How many times has the app been downloaded since October?
4.What did Facebook invite Ben for a tour of?
5.What did Google invite Ben to visit?
6.Which other institution besides Google is sponsoring a hacking event?
7.How long do the high-schoolers have to create a product?
8.Who will the high-schoolers listen to?
9.Who is Michael Matias?
10.What did Michael Matias say about Ben's app?
答案
TRUE / FALSE
a F b F c T d T e T f F g T h F
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1.Google and Facebook
2.Impossible Rush
3.Over 500,000 times
4.Its headquarters
5.Its campus
6.MIT
7.36 hours
8.Featured speakers
9.The event's organiser
10.It was extremely impressive
