题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On Oct. 16, 2018, one of the two co-founders of Microsoft, Paul G. Allen, 1. (die)at age 65 from cancer.

When 2. comes to Microsoft, the first person we think of was Bill Gates, the other co-founder of the firm. 3., Allen was just as important to the 4. (create)of the company. Allen was, many people say, a much quieter person. He was content with the science side of things, while Gates has the 5. (good)head for business.

When the pair started Microsoft in the mid-1970s, they focused on the microcomputer industry. Microcomputers were small computers 6. (design)to be used in the home. 7. they lacked, though, was an operating system, which is where Microsoft came in. The company’s big break came in 1980, 8. Microsoft created the MS-DOS operating system. Later came Windows.

After Allen passed away, Bill Gates made a statement 9. (praise)Allen, “Even in high school, before most people knew what a personal computer was, Paul predicted that chips would get super-powerful and would 10.(eventual)give rise to a whole new industry. ”