Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder who became a millionaire after founding technology companies, experienced a long line of university dropouts(退学者)as we all know, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among them. But 12 years after leaving Harvard to work on Facebook full time, he returned to pick up his degree finally.
Zuckerberg founded what was then called “The Facebook” in his college dormitory (宿舍) in 2004. At that time, the service was at first offered only to Harvard students before bringing it to other Ivy League (常春藤联盟) universities. Zuckerberg made the university’s graduation speech later on Thursday. After receiving the honor for the degree, he posted a photo of him with his parents and Mark Zuckerberg realized his parents’dream with a Harvard degree.
During his speech on Thursday, Mr Zuckerberg told graduates that everybody lived in a changeable time. With his wife, Priscilla, in the audience (听众), he pointed to the dormitory where he founded Facebook and added that meeting her there was the best thing to happen to him at the university.
Zuckerberg returned to the room where he built Facebook along with his partners, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. Even after the company moved its head office to California, Zuckerberg continued to be a student at Harvard until he dropped out in November, 2005. “I’m not coming back,” he told the university paper “The Crimson”.
His honorary degree comes 12 years later, a little quicker than Bill Gates, another famous Harvard dropout, to get his. Gates, who left to found Microsoft in 1975, did not receive his honorary degree until 2007. Last week, Zuckerberg shared a video of him finding out he had been accepted into Harvard. At that time he was just a young man who was going to step into one of the best universities around the world and he didn’t know who he would be in the future at all.
【小题1】Who were the first users of the service of “The Facebook”？| A．Officers in Gates’ company. |
| B．Some Zuckerberg’s friends. |
| C．The students in Harvard. |
| D．Students in Ivy universities. |
| A．Having the idea of founding a company. |
| B．Dropping out of the best university. |
| C．Living in the special dormitoiy. |
| D．Meeting his wife Priscilla. |
| A．He was in the same class with Steve Jobs. |
| B．After twelve years’ leaving, he graduated from Harvard. |
| C．He became rich for selling some technology firms. |
| D．He founded Facebook after his graduation. |
| A．Zuckerberg and his late Harvard degree |
| B．Zuckerberg, the special teacher for life |
| C．Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Jobs’ influence |
| D．Zuckerberg and his terrible past and bright future |
