Computer programmer Kevin Hanley earns $100,000 a year
designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have
a check card. Instead he has been told to wait until he is 18.
The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Pittsburgh, where the problem of
most young people of his age is finding a job. Kevin’s firm releases (发布) two
new games for the home computer market each month. But Kevin’s
biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though Kevin earns a lot of
money, he cannot drive a car, or buy a house, or obtain (获得) credit
cards. He lives with ’his parents in Pittsburgh. His company
has to pay $200 a month in taxi fares (费用) to get him five miles to work and
back every day because Kevin cannot drive. "I got this job
because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,"
Kevin said. Most of Kevin’s spare time is spent working. "Unfortunately,
computing was not part of our studies at school," he said, "But I had been
studying it in books and magazines for years in my spare time. I knew what I
wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this
business are fairly young anyway." Kevin added, "I would like
to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility. You
never know when the market might disappear." Kevin left school because ______.
A. he did not enjoy school
B. he was afraid of getting too old to start computing
C. he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help
him
D. he wanted to earn a lot of money