Bill Cooper is portfolio (证券投资) manager of the $ 13 billion Value Trust Funds, one
of the best mutual funds (互惠基金) of the last decade.He is the only fund manager to perform. the best for nine years in a row.
Cooper's interests in stocks(证券) began at the age of nine, when he noticed his father reading something in the newspaper.So Bill asked his father what it was.His father explained that he was reading the financial pages.His father pointed to a column with some company's logo in it."If you owned a share of this company," he told his young boy, you have 25 cents more today than you had yesterday." Young Cooper asked, "You can make money without doing any work?" His father replied yes.So Bill responded, "Well, that's what I want to do."
With this idea, he made his way out of his secondary school and into the university.He worked very hard at his studies of finance.When he got his first job in a bank, he found that a university degree is not a sign that one in a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for his career.He is now making big money, yet he knows clearly that is based on hard work.
21.In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase "for nine years in a row" means().
A.for nine years in a line
B.for nine years continuously
C.for nine years as if rowing a boat
22.It was that Bill got an impression on finance when he was only nine years old().
A.through his father's explanation
B.from the financial pages in the newspaper
C.from his father's reading
23.It was the idea that that attracted the young boy()
A.one can make money without working in a bank
B.one can make money through buying stocks
C.one can make money without buying any stocks
24.From the passage, we know that Bill's success lied in his().
A.good luck
B.hard work
C.his father's help
25.Bill Cooper soon learnt after his graduation that a university degree().
A.meant nothing in a bank
B.did mean that one was finished
C.only indicated that one was ready to start his career