The Business pi answer key

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2 f) 3 d) 4 b) 5 c) 6 a)
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1, 4, 6, 9
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I do think that I’m …
I think I’m good at …
People say that I’m …
I’d say that I’m …
I would like to …
I often fi nd (that) …
4.5 Writing
 Profiles of business leaders
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3
set up sewing workshop
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won fi rst prize at the World Exhibition
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contracted polio
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went to school
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named a bear after a US president
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made a toy elephant
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1 currently, at the moment
2 in the end
3 although
4 furthermore, in addition 
5 then, after that
6 unfortunately
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1 C 2 B 3 D 4 B 5 B 6 B 7 A 8 B
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Pierre Omidyar was born in Paris in 1967, but his father, a doctor, moved the 
family to Maryland, USA while Pierre was still a child. 
After graduating from an American university in 1988 with a degree in 
computer science, he worked for Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Computer. 
Although he was happy developing software for Claris, he left the company 
in 1991 and founded Ink Development Corp with three friends. After setting 
up eBay in 1995, Pierre ran an online company called Auction Shop. Then 
/ after that, in 1996, Ink Development Corp, which included an Internet 
shopping section, was sold to Microsoft. After that / then, in 1998, eBay 
went public and as a result Pierre became a billionaire. 
Then / After that in 2005, Pierre gave $100 million to the university that he 
graduated from to launch the Omidyar-Tufts Microfi nance Fund. 
Currently/ Now, eBay is one of the most successful e-companies in the 
world. 

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Answer key
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Correct order is: h, b, i, c, g, e, a, f, d.
Zhang Yin was born in Heilongjiang province in the north east of China 
in 1957. There were eight children in her family and she was the eldest 
daughter.
In 1976 she got her fi rst job as an accountant and after that she moved to 
Shenzhen, in the south of China, where she worked for a paper trading 
company. After that she moved to Hong Kong, where she opened her own 
paper trading company in 1985. Although she was successful there, she 
soon found that Hong Kong was too small for her ambitions and so in 1990 
she moved to Los Angeles. Whilst there she founded the American Chung 
Nam Company. Unfortunately, at that time, China ‘s economy was facing 
shortages of materials, e.g. paper. The American Chung Nam Company 
shipped huge containers of paper and steel back to China for recycling. 
Demand grew very quickly and in 1995 Zhang Yin returned to Hong Kong 
and founded Nine Dragons Paper, furthermore, she opened her fi rst paper 
making facility in Dongguan. In 2006 shares in Nine Dragons Paper fl oated 
on the Hong Kong stock exchange, Zhang Yin however still owns 72% of 
the company. 
Currently Nine Dragons Paper has more than 5,000 employees and in 
addition the company market value is 37.5 billion yen. At the moment they 
are also building another huge facility close to Shanghai. In 2006, Zhang 
Yin was named China’s richest self-made person and also the world’s richest 
self-made woman.