II. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the best answer. 26. What is the cohesive device used in these sentences: "William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet. In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”? * A Personal reference B Demonstrative reference C Comparative reference D Ellipsis 27. What is the cohesive device used in these sentences: "His father William Gates Sr was a senior lawyer, and his mother, Mary, served as an executive for a major bank. The family were wealthy but, remembering the challenges of the Great Depression, they encouraged their children to work hard and take nothing for granted."? * A Substitution B Ellipsis C Lexical cohesion D Conjunction 28. What is the cohesive device used in these sentence: "In the early 1980s, IBM was by far the leading PC manufacturer. However, increasingly, there developed many IBM PC clones; (PCs produced by other companies compatible with IBM’s)."? * A Verbal substitution B Nominal ellipsis C Clausal ellipsis D Conjunction 29. What type of theme can be identified in this sentence: "Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers."? * A Interpersonal theme B Textual theme C Topical theme 30. What kind of lexical cohesion can be identified in these sentences: "He taught himself to programme in Basic, making a simple ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’ game. Gates enjoyed the process of working with computers and arranged with a company Computer Center Corporation (CCC) to spend time on their computers – learning source code, such as Fortran, Machine Code and Lisp."? * A Repetition B Synonymy C Antonymy 31. What is the theme-rheme pattern of these sentences: "William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet. In recent years, he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”? * A Zigzag theme B Constant theme C Multiple theme 32. What type of theme can be identified in this sentence: "Facebook was born in Harvard and was initially just a university ‘thing’ but Mark wanted it to extend to other universities."? * A Interpersonal theme B Textual theme C Topical theme 33. What is the cohesive device used in these sentences: "While at Harvard, Mark wrote various softwares namely ‘Facemash’, a program in which the students could vote who was better looking. This was shut down on the grounds of privacy protection and being totally ‘improper’"? * A Comparative reference B Verbal substitution C Clausal ellipsis D Demonstrative reference 34. What is the cohesive device used in these sentences: "When Mark was in high school he developed a music player that worked on artificial intelligence. Microsoft and AOL were interested in purchasing this player but Zuckerburg refused."?   A Reference B Substitution C Ellipsis D Conjunction