2. Sir Clive Sinclair

3. Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.
Sir Clive’s stories.
B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.
C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions.

4. Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.
Sir Clive’s stories.
B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.
C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions. D

5. Read Para One and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British
businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
C. Clive got a job at 17.
D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

6. Read Para One and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British
businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
C. Clive got a job at 17.
D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

7. Read Para Two and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sinclair was unfortunate.
B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in
bulk.
D. Sinclair founded his own company.

8. Read Para Two and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sinclair was unfortunate.
B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in
bulk.
D. Sinclair founded his own company.

9. Read Para Three and choose the correct
topic sentence for it.
Sinclair likes computers very much.
B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100 pounds.
C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.
D. Clive was very talented at making little
things.

10. Read Para Three and choose the correct
topic sentence for it.
Sinclair likes computers very much.
B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100 pounds.
C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.
D. Clive was very talented at making little
things.

11. Read Para Four and choose the correct topic
sentence for it.
Sinclair C5 is good for environment.
B. The disadvantage of Sinclair’s new
inventions.
Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at
in the newspaper.
D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a
downward slide during the 1980s.

12. Read Para Four and choose the correct topic
sentence for it.
Sinclair C5 is good for environment.
B. The disadvantage of Sinclair’s new
inventions.
Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at
in the newspaper.
D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a
downward slide during the 1980s.

13. Read Para Five and choose the correct topic
sentence for it.
Sinclair became chairman of British
Mensa.
B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
Sinclair paid personally for an annual
Mensa conference at Cambridge.
D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a
business man.

14. Read Para Five and choose the correct topic
sentence for it.
Sinclair became chairman of British
Mensa.
B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
Sinclair paid personally for an annual
Mensa conference at Cambridge.
D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a
business man.

15. Careful Reading

16. Qualities
Supporting details
intelligence
ambition

17. Qualities Supporting details intelligence ambition
He began designing and making things when he was very young. His teachers said that by age ten he knew all the maths they could teach him.

18. Qualities Supporting details intelligence ambition
He began designing and making things when he was very young. His teachers said that by age ten he knew all the maths they could teach him.
He started his first company at the age of 21.

19. Qualities
Supporting details
perseverance
leadership

20. Qualities Supporting details perseverance leadership
He restarted his company even after a backer had pulled out of the project.

21. Qualities Supporting details perseverance leadership
He restarted his company even after a backer had pulled out of the project.
He expanded Mensa’s membership while he was chairman.