After Steve Jobs died，his friend Larry Elliso...

After Steve Jobs died，his friend Larry Ellison said something like this, “There will never

be another Steve Jobs”. 1. Larry wrote this list of Steve's life lessons to remind us all.

1. Love what you do. Sure Steve became a billionaire when he brought Apple back. Apple was his calling even after he got fired from the company. We all have bad jobs at one point in our lives. But the question is: am I in the right job? Have I found the right company? Life doesn’t go on forever. 2.

2. Don't do it all by yourself.

Steve learned a great leader can't do it all by himself. He needs people. They must be talented. 3._ They must be given the opportunity to succeed and fail. In short，we have to learn to be a great leader if we want to see our great ideas and hard work truly have an influence on the world.

3. 4._

Apple is always good at creating a new product that meets the exact needs of users. It’s empathy（共鸣）that helps Apple achieve this. Whenever the user has the first touch with a new Apple product，he says "Wow，it's just what I need". Remember, you're King in the business world if you know exactly what consumers desire.

4. Don't mess around with your health.

5._ That's the most important lesson from Steve's life. It's great to learn from him but，the fact is he should still be here if he had treated his cancer properly. Instead, Steve chose a naturopathic(自然疗法)solution that wasn't effective. When he finally decided to take his doctor's original advice，it was too late.

A. What are the key things that we could learn from him?

B. Get on our right path now.

C. Will this lead to a successful career?

D. They must be inspired.

E. Put yourself in the other person's shoes.

F. Take your health seriously.

G. Be the best in your field.

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___ against cancer for many years, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, who died at the age of fifty-six, made technology fun.

A．Fighting           B．To fight           C．Fought            D．Having fought

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Steve Jobs, American former Apple CEO and founder, ______ a week after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, was a person who changed the world.

A．adjusted          B．adopted           C．adapted           D．absorbed

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When Steve Jobs was born on Febuary24,1955, in San Francisco , California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption（收养）because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but only after six months did he decide to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends’ rooms.

Jobs and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. He named their company ----Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as a fruit garden in Oregon.

After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two kids working in a garage, Apple computer eventually grew into a big company with over 4000 employees.

At 30, Jobs , however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after he had to leave the company, Apple was under heavy pressure from competitor Microsoft and suffered heavy losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appointed as Apple’ CEO in1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability（盈利） and introduced new products such as the IPod, the IPhone and the IPad.

Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t be discouraged. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find your interest. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.”

1.Why did Jobs’ mother abandon him?　 ( within 6 words)

2.What did Jobs do half a year later in college?　 ( within 5 words)

3.When was Jobs removed from Apple?　 ( within 2 words)

4.What happened to Apple after Jobs left it？ ( within 10 words)

5. What do you think is the most important thing to lead Jobs to success?　 (1 word )

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When Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but decided to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends’ rooms.

At 20, he and a friend started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Jobs named their company ----Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard (果园) in Oregon.

After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two kids working in a garage, Apple computer eventually grew into a big company with over 4,000 employees.

At 30, Jobs , however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after he had to leave the company, Apple was under heavy pressure from rival (对手) Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appointed as Apple’ CEO in1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced new products such as the iPhone and the iPad.

Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick, Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.

1.Why did Steve Jobs stop his college education?

A. He had financial problems

B. He took no interest in his major

C. He wanted to start a company

D. He hated to share rooms with his friends

2.What can be inferred about Apple from the passage?

A. It was founded in Oregon　　 B. It had a difficult beginning

C. It developed from a garage　　 D. It had a successful beginning

3.What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A. Steve Jobs invented the iPhone

B. Steve Jobs joined Microsoft in 1987

C. Steve Jobs gave Apple a second life

D. Steve Jobs set up another company at 30

4.What does what Steve Jobs said suggest?

A. Courage goes with confidence　　 B. Attitude is everything

C. Hope helps us succeed　　 D. Enthusiasm is the key to success

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Four Secrets to Steve Jobs’ Success

How is it that a college dropout, who was once kicked out of his own company, became one of the world’s foremost innovators?

Carmine Gallo lists the four ways Jobs managed to succeed in the face of discouraging circumstances. 1.

Do what you love, no matter what it happens to be.

This is what Jobs told Stanford University graduates in a speech in 2005, Gallo says the famous talk show host Rachael Ray agrees with this advice. Rachael Ray does what she loves. 2. She did that because she loved cooking.

Say no to 1000 things.

Simplifying his business was the key to Jobs’ success, Gallo says. In 1997, when Jobs returned to Apple, Apple was close to bankruptcy（破产）. He took 300 products and condensed them to 10 within a two-year period.

3. In his latter years, he decided he would wear the same dress every day so that he didn’t have to think about it.

Kick-start（启动）your brain by doing something new.

Doing new things helped Jobs, in the words of Apple's own slogan, “Think differently.”

The inspiration for the Apple Store came from the Four Seasons Hotel. That’s why when you walk into an Apple Store, you will not find a cashier. 4.. Walk to the back of the store and there’s a bar. It doesn’t serve alcohol, but it collects advice.

5.

“For Jobs, it wasn’t just about selling 29 million iPads this summer but entertaining the customer at the same time,” Gallo says. “Whether you run a multi-billion dollar tech company or a pizza restaurant, innovation means creating a new experience for your customers,” Jobs says.

A. Do what you are curious about.

B. Create fresh experiences.

C. Instead, you’ll find a doorkeeper.

D. Carmine Gallo says that you can do the same.

E. She was giving cooking lessons at Macy’s for free.

F. Simplicity also extends to Jobs’ personal life.

G. Jobs explained that iPad was not just a phone but a lifestyle.

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Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a-year-long and highly public battle with cancer. Jobs' death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words "Steve Jobs, 1955-2011".

A message on the site read, "Apple has lost an imaginary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring leader."

"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." The Silicon Valley hero who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August, handing the position to current chief executive Tim Cook.

Two years before the iPhone that forever transformed the way people around the world access and use the Internet, Jobs talked about how a sense of his death was a major driver behind that vision.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever got to help me make the big choices in life," Jobs said during a Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005. "Because almost everything－all others' expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure－these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

1.According to the passage, which statement of Steve Jobs is RIGHT?

A. Steve Jobs was the present CEO of Apple.

B. Steve Jobs was thought to have great talent.

C. Steve Jobs had no idea about his death before.

D. Steve Jobs fought against cancer for a year secretly.

2.What can we learn about iPhone from the passage?

A. People can use it to do anything they want.

B. It can teach people how to surf the Internet.

C. People can learn the spirit of Apple from it.

D. It can change the way people use the Internet.

3.In Jobs's speech in Stanford, we can learn that ________.

A. to make great achievements, you must lose everything

B. people should try to achieve everything regardless of death

C. people who will be dead soon must make big choices in life

D. in the face of death, nothing is truly important except to follow your dream

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Steve Jobs changed the world.

B. Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.

C. Who will be the next Steve Jobs?

D. Steve Jobs, the greatest American CEO.

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Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the  greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56,  after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer. Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Steve Jobs made technology fun. As tech leaders, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life. Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout. He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant. They supported his early interest in electronics. He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in 1976. They stayed at the company until 1985. That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.

Mr. Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer. He rejoined Apple in 1997 after it bought NeXT, He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today. However, Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August, 2011 because of his health. He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement. Steve left behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

President Obama said in a statement: by building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, Steve Jobs showed the spirit of American ingenuity (独创性). By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible but intuitive (直觉的) and fun.

The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really astonishing. He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the greatest of all time. Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business. Steve Jobs was remembered as a " great visionary and leader" and a marketing genius.

1.What does the underlined word "dispute" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

2.According to Paragraph 2, the author wants to show that _____.

3.Which of the following statements about Steve Jobs is NOT TRUE?

4.How long did Steve Jobs work for Apple?

5.This passage is mainly about _____.

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Stephen Hawking has said he believes brains could exist independently of the body after people die, but that the idea of a conventional afterlife（传统意义上的死后重生）is a fairy tale. Speaking at the premiere（首映）of a documentary film about his life, Stephen Hawking said: “I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer, so it’s theoretically possible to copy the brain onto a computer and so provide a form of life after death.”

“However, this is way beyond our present scientific and technological level. I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark.” The author of “A Brief History of Time”, who earlier approved of the right for the deadly ill to end their lives as long as safeguards were in place, suffered from motor neurone(运动神经元) disease at the age of 21 and was given two to three years to live.

“All my life I have lived with the menace of an early death, so I hate wasting time,” Hawking said on Thursday night, using the computer-created voice he controls with a facial muscle and a blink(贬眼) from one eye. The documentary explores a brilliant schoolboy with unclear handwriting who enjoyed the life of Oxford University before illness led to a lifelong desire of discovery about the origins of the universe, which began as a graduate at Cambridge University and has shocked the world.

Hawking’s sister Mary says in the film that her brother was highly competitive and curious about everything in a household which friends described as very academic, and explains how she received a toy house as a present when they were children, to which Stephen immediately added electricity.

She said that life with her brother was attractive and exciting. “It’s a waste of time arguing with Stephen because he always manages to turn the argument round,” she said. The film goes back to his childhood and his student days and shows the scientist, who uses a wheelchair, at home with break. It also explores his family life with his first wife, Jane, and their three children, the breakdown of their marriage and his marriage to one of his carers.

Jane appears on camera to explain how the pressures of caring for the children and the increasingly disabled Hawking became even worse once full-time nurses were brought into the home, destroying any privacy（隐私）. His second wife and former nurse, Elaine Mason, does not appear in the film, and Hawking introduces their 1995-2007 marriage with a few pictures and a brief description.

1.Which statement is most probably agreed with by Hawking?

A. People can become alive again after they die.

B. Brains could exist out of the body.

C. Brains can now be copied onto computers.

D. People are expected to continue living in a certain form after death.

2.To the will of incurable patients to end their lives, Hawking ________.

A. is conditionally agreeable

B. holds a negative attitude

C. shows his deep concern

D. expresses his strong approval

3.What does the underlined word “menace” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. power　　 B. threat

C. influence　　 D. desire

4.According to Mary, when they were children ________.

A. Hawking gave her a toy house with electricity

B. they never argued with each other

C. she didn’t like living with Hawking because of his competitiveness

D. Hawking showed outstanding talent for physics

5.It can be inferred that ________.

A. Hawking now has to use his wheelchair wherever he goes

B. Hawking’s first wife was once a full-time nurse

C. Jane felt too stressed to continue her marriage with Hawking

D. the film mainly presents Hawking’s student days

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Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me, “I never knew he was your stepfather.” You see, I never called him 　　 . At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. 　　 , I felt he was also my father.

Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright 　　 . “We’ll plant trees there to give us 　 as well as some flowers,” he said. And just these little touches made our house 　 from all the others. More importantly, a real family was 　　 　 . Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it 　 to have a father.

Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father 　　

you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, 　 　　 I always thought it was wonderful. mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing 　 , but I, who had ever before spent my childhood other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with 　 delight. 　　 , I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the of doing ordinary things together as a family.

1.A. it    B. that    C. so    D. one

2.A. In time    B. At the time    C. First time    D. On time

3.A. necessities    B. possibilities    C. recognition    D. decoration

4.A. vegetables    B. grass    C. shadow    D. shade

5.A. beautiful    B. similar    C. same    D. different

6.A. forming    B. developing    C. growing    D. becoming

7.A. became    B. meant    C. followed    D. got

8.A. cut    B. help    C. drop    D. drive

9.A. so    B. and    C. but    D. since

10.A. Monday    B. Weekday    C. Friday    D. Saturday

11.A. special    B. usual    C. especial    D. different

12.A. noticing    B. recognizing    C. understanding    D. watching

13.A. modest    B. extreme    C. deep    D. high

14.A. Looking back    B.Coming back    C. Looking forward    D. Going back on

15.A. achievement    B. recognition    C. experience    D. procedure

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