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READING
1. Read the text. Match sentences A–E with 1–4 in the text. There is one
sentence you do not need. (4 marks)

★ A A big supermarket group asked him to sell it in their stores.

★ B They turned a simple idea into a huge, global success and became
millionaires overnight.
★ C He experimented with his grandmother’s recipes to produce his own
type made from 100% fruit.
★ D Fortunately, their older brother Geoff decided to help by giving them
the money they needed to start their company.
★ E His neighbours liked his designs so much that they paid for him to
make cards for them.
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Business Profiles: Teenage Millionaires

Cameron Johnson
When he was only nine, Cameron Johnson from Virginia started a business – making invitation
cards for a party his parents were having. (1) He called his company ‘Cheers and Tears’. When he
was eleven, he earned several thousand dollars from the business. He used the money to start an
online business where internet users get paid to look at adverts. By the time he was fifteen, he was
making $400,000 a month from this! Before he left high school, it was worth $1,000,000! Now
Cameron is a global business expert. He appears on TV shows and gives lectures about business to
young people.

Fraser Doherty
Fraser Doherty, from Edinburgh, started making *jam when he was fourteen. (2) In the beginning,
he donated the money to his favourite charity, Greenpeace. His jam became popular and many
people bought it. By the time he was sixteen there was a large demand for Fraser’s ‘SuperJam’ as
he called it. (3) Fraser used the money he earned to develop the business. Soon he was making £1.4
million in sales! He wrote a jam cookbook and a business guide, SuperBusiness. Fraser continues to
make jam today – that’s what he loves to do. He’s also a popular business speaker because he’s so
cheerful, energetic and inspirational.

David and Catherine Cook

American brother-and-sister team David and Catherine Cook became millionaires by turning a
simple yearbook into one of the most popular websites in America. A yearbook is a book that
contains pictures and information about the students at a school for a particular year. When the
Cooks moved to a new school they looked at the school yearbook to find out if there was anyone
they knew. That’s when they got the idea – why not put it online so everyone could see it? But they
needed help. (4) Their website, myyearbook.com, made it easy for anyone to look up and connect
with their friends. It didn’t take long for their business to become a success – it is now worth close
to $100 million. With the success of Facebook, they changed their message to focus on making new
friends rather than connecting with friends you know. Their website name is now meetme.com.

* jam = mermelada

2 Read the text again and answer the questions. (6 marks)

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1 What did Cameron Johnson do with the money he got from ‘Cheers and
Tears’___________________________________________________________
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2 How much money was Cameron Johnson earning when he was fifteen?
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3 What did Fraser Doherty first do with the money he made from his jam when
he was fourteen?
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4 What is SuperBusiness?
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5 Who helped pay for David and Catherine Cook’s business idea to become a
company?
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6 What was the first name of the Cook’s website?______________

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