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Sir Clive Sinclair 3. What society was Clive chairman of?Read the radio transcript quickly , get its main idea and answer the following questions: 1. When was Clive Sinclair born?2. What was Clives first job?3. What society was Clive chairman of?on 30 July 1940.An assistant editor for a magazine called Practical Wireless.British Mensa (the high IQ society)1. When was Clive Sinclair born?2. What was Clives first job?Decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.A. Sir Clives stories.B. Sir Clives mini inventions.C. How Sir Clive ran his company.D. Sir Clive Sinclairs life and inventions.DRead Para One and chose the correct topic sentence for it.A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.B. Clives brilliant Childhood.C. Clive got a job at 17.D. Sinclair invented the calculator and was saddened.Read Para Two and chose the correct topic sentence for it.A. Sinclair was unfortunate.B. How Clive ran his first companies.C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk. D. Sinclair registered his own company.Read Para Three and chose the correct topic sentence for it.A.Sinclair was the first to make pocket- sized things in the world.B. Sinclairs computer cost only 100 pounds.C. Sinclairs company expended rapidly.D. Clive was very talented at making little things. Read Para Four and chose the correct topic sentence for it.A. Sinclair studied Economics at Cambridge University.B. The advantage of Sinclairs new inventions.C. Sinclairs new invention was laughed at in the newspaper. D. How Sinclairs career underwent a downward slide during the 1980s.Read Para Five and chose the correct topic sentence for it.A. Sinclair became chairman of British Mensa.B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.C. Sinclair paid personally for an annual Mensa conference at Cambridge. D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a business man.195719611962The following is a timeline of important dates in Sinclairs life. Fill in what happened in each year.He got a job as an assistant editor for a magazine.Sinclair registered his own company.He launched the worlds first pocket calculator.1976197719801983He launched the worlds first pocket TV.Sinclair showed off the ZX80 computer.Sinclair launched his C5 car.He launched the worlds first digital watch.Read Para Five and fill in the blanks.Sinclair has been successful because _he possessed a combination of intelligence and determination that allowed him to realize his dream of making electronic goods available to everyone.C1: How well did you understand the details of the transcript? Read the text again if you do not know the answer. 1. What did Sinclairs grandfather and father do? _2. Why didnt Sinclair go to university? _ _3. What was the first thing that Sinclair made and sold? _They were both engineers. Because he decided that university would teach him nothing new.The pocket-sized radio.4. What was Sinclairs big picture? _ _5. Why was the ZX80 computer so popular? _ _6. What did the ZX Spectrum prove most useful for? _ To produce in bulk and sell cheaply his pocket radio. Because the computer was very cheap, which cost less than 100 pounds.It proved more useful for playingHis C5 car. It demonstrated that Sinclair had skillful leadership and strength of personality. _7. What was Sinclairs failure? _8. What did the growth of Mensa demonstrate? _ _ _computer games on.D: Find these new words in the transcript of the radio program me. Guess their meanings from the context. Then match them with their correct definitions. Answers:1. b2.f3.h4.c 5.e 6.g 7.d 8.aE: Licheng wrote an article about Sir Clive Sinclair for the school Magazine . Complete the article with the words in the box below.Answers:(1) inventing (2) educating (3)electronic(4) registered (5) radio(6) expanded(7) electricity (8) unfortunately(9) membership(10) honoured