Call the Disk Doctorl 1 Desperate computer users who 'lose' the data from their

Call the Disk Doctorl

1 Desperate computer users who 'lose' the data from their disks can get in touch with

experts who, for a fee, will recover the lost information. One of these experts is Dave Smith, who, some years ago, set up a company called fl3ve,5 Disk Doctor Service Ltd. Dave and a few of his friends work from home and give all the money they earn to charity. The fees are always the same, no matter how precious the data on the disk is. Some people, however, are so grateful that they send extra money to Dave or to the charities his company supports. One oil company offered him Li ,000 for his help and a vet sent him a blank check

2 It would be hard to put a value on the things rescued by the Disk Doctor. There have been disks containing medical research, television scripts, manuscripts of whole books, a comedlan,5joke collection, a solicitor' s papers for a court case, and even Margaret Thatcher,5itinerary for a visit to eastern Europe. For this last case, Dave was asked if he would go in person to Mrs. Thatcher's office 'for security reasons,!

3 Disks are usually sent to the Disk Doctor by post, but sometimes people are in such

a hurry that they can't wait for the post. Radio scripts have had to be rushed by taxi to

Dave's house because they were needed for broadcasting the next day, for example. When the material has been recovered, the disk is returned to the sender with a diagnosis and a prescription for avoiding the problem in future. One grateful client, an author put a 'thank you' to Dave in the front of his book.' Dave saved mc from a cardiac arrest' , he wrote 'But,,says Dave, 'most people don't take any notice ol the doctor's advice!'

Read Passage 2 and decide whether the following statements are Jrue or False. Write T for True and F for False against the number of each of the statements on your Answer Sheet

11. Computer users can get back their lost data from their disks without any payment in Dave's company

12. The company named Dave's Disk Doctor Service Ltd is set up by Dave Smith

13. Dave and his friends earn a large amount of money, but they spend none

14. According to the different value of the data on the disk, people need to pay different amount of money for saving them

15. Most people will take notice of the disk doctor' s . advice after the disk is repaired

16. hopeless _________ (paragraph 1)

17. thankful_(paragraph 1)

18. to save _________ (paragraph 2)

19. lawyer_(paragraph 2)

20. to keep from happening_(paragraph 3)