阅读理解板块练(四) A(·武汉市高中毕业生调研测试)Elon Musk was born in South Africa, in 1971.A crazy fan of computers, by the age of twelve, Musk had written the code ( 代码) for his own video game, which he sold for a profit.He attended Queen’s University in Canada, and transferred ( 转 到 ) to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees, economics and physics.He was admitted to Stanford University in California, intending to earn a PhD in energy physics.First Company — Zip2 Corporation In 1995, at the age of 24, Musk dropped out of Stanford University after just two days of classes to start his first company Zip2 Corporation.It was an online city guide that provided content for the new online versions of The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers.In 1999, Musk got $22 million from the sale of Zip2.Online BankingIn 1999, Elon Musk started X．com with $10 million dollars from the sale of Zip2.X.com was an online bank, and he was credited with inventing a method of securely transferring money using a receiver’s email address.PayPalIn , X ． com bought a company called Confinity, which had started an Internet moneytransfer process called PayPal.Elon Musk dropped the online banking focus to concentrate on becoming a global payment transfer provider.In , eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion.Space Exploration TechnologiesIn , Elon Musk started SpaceX.He is a longstanding member of the Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that supports the exploration of Mars, and Musk is interested in building a greenhouse on Mars.SpaceX has been developing rocket technologies to enable Musk’s project.Tesla MotorsIn , Elon Musk cofounded Tesla Motors, of which he is the only ...
