Tracey Makin

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 400.

Tom Hartley

Rich Kids

Today there are more and more young people under the age of 25 (1) ______________ (to become) millionaires. Coming into money at an early age can be tremendously exciting but it can also be fraught with its own problems and dangers. Here are three young people who (2) ___________ (to find) themselves in quite extraordinary financial situations very early on.

The thoughts of his contemporaries are of football, computer games and latest designer trainers. Yet Tom Hartley, who struck his first deal (3) ____________ (to sell) a Porsche when he was 11, just (4) _____________ (to become) Britain's youngest self-made millionaire at the age of 14. In the past year he (5) ______ (to be) responsible for clinching deals worth $8 m for his father's luxury used-car business.

(6) _____________ (to leave) school at 11 and since then (7) _____________ (to educate) by the so-called ‘university of life', Hartley is serving an apprenticeship and learning something every day.

His father said of Tom: “He (8) _______________ (to talk) with customers on the phone since he was 12. Actually, he's really more like a partner, which is why I got him a Ferrari – he (9) _____________ (to earn) it.”

The National Lottery's youngest millionaire confessed yesterday that she (10) _____________ (to delight) with a mere $53. 16-year-old Tracey Makin thought she (11) ____________ (to collect) that modest windfall after matching four numbers in Saturday's draw and it was only the next day, as she (12) ________________ (to check) her numbers again that she realised she (13) ___________ (to pick) them all – and a win of more than $1 million.

Earlier her mother said Tracey seemed (14) ____________ (to take) the enormous win easy. “She (15) ___________ (to be) very cool about it, but obviously she is ecstatic,” she said. “I don't know how she (16) ____________ (to manage) to study for her exams, but she (17) _______ (auxiliary verb) and she (18) _______________ (to take) her exams in summer, money or no money.”

Tracey chose her numbers from a combination of friends' birthdays. “I probably will continue playing the lottery although I was told lightning never (19) ____________ (to strike) twice in the same place,” she laughed. “It slowly (20) _________ (to sink in) but still I really (21) _________ (not to have) the chance to think properly about what I (22) _____ (to do) with the money.”