题目内容
Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, 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 nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute(分歧)with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven 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.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius(天才)".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning (令人惊奇的).He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
- 1.
Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?
- A.He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
- B.He became very rich though dropping out college.
- C.He released a new iPhone version before death.
- D.He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
- A.
- 2.
Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?
- A.After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
- B.He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
- C.He developed a series of Apple products.
- D.He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
- A.
- 3.
What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?
- A.Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
- B.Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
- C.Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
- D.American people are good at inventing things.
- A.
- 4.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
- A.Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
- B.Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
- C.Jobs started his career in his family garage.
- D.Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.
- A.
文章是对苹果的创始人史蒂芬乔布斯的个人简介。
1.细节理解题 根据文章开头“Steve Jobs made technology fun.”可知人们悼念他是因为他让科技成为一钟娱乐的第一人。
2.细节理解题 根据文中“...He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today...”可知乔布斯让苹果复活,所以说他是“市场奇才”
3.细节理解题 根据句子前后可知这句话是说通过建立全球最伟大的公司,乔布斯是美国智慧的典型代表。
4.细节理解题 根据第七段By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage可知,他的公司是从车库里开始的。
The CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs’ story about death
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered(遇到)to help me make the big choice in life.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that was incurable, and that I would live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is my doctors’ code for preparing yourself to die.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. I was completely in despair. Later that evening, I had another biopsy(活组织检查)and my wife told me that tumor turned to be curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death. To tell the truth, no one wants to die. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. It clears out the old to make room for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
Your time is so limited that you shouldn’t waste it repeating someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma(教条)----which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart. It somehow already knows what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
【小题1】The doctor advised the author to go home and get his affairs in order because_________.
A.he had to rest at home |
B.his disease was not serious at all |
C.his disease couldn’t be cured |
D.he had to wait for the result of the test |
A.Angry | B.Excited | C.Optimistic | D.Hopeless |
A.He thinks it is nothing to be scared of. |
B.He thinks it is not the end of life. |
C.He thinks it is impossible to avoid. |
D.He thinks it is the beginning of a new life |
A. follow others’ advice
B. take no notice of diseases
C. take exercise and keep healthy
D have the courage to follow our heart
Steve Jobs-A surprising success.
Nothing in the early years of Steve Job’s life suggested that he would be so successful. Born in San Francisco, the child of two students, he was adopted and grew up close to Silicon Valley. While at company-and he and his best friend Steve Wozniak got summer jobs there.
After finishing high school in 1972, Jobs studied at an expensive liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon but he dropped pout after one after one term. He grew his hair and a beard, slept on friends’ floors, and sometimes went to a Hare Krishna temple for free meals. Like many drop-outs at that Beatles-inspired time, his ambition was to visit a guru(古鲁[印度教的宗师或领袖])in India, which he eventually did with a friend. When they got there, the guru had died.
At this point, Jobs has a limited education, and no obvious talents, apart from a notorious(臭名远扬)ability to talk. However, he did have a devoted friend who was an electronics genius. They were a great team. Without Jobs’ s ambition, high design standards, the ability to make deals and great maketing skills-Wozniak might well have spent a quiet life designing hardware at HP.
【小题1】The article tells us that .
A.Steve Jobs’s parents lived in San Francisco |
B.Steve Jobs’s parents were rich |
C.Steve Jobs’s parents worked at Hewlett-Packard |
D.Steve Jobs didn’t know his real parents |
A.He was a Buddhist |
B.His family were Indian |
C.He had very little money |
D.He was inspired by the Beatles |
A.Steve Jobs was uneducated. |
B.Steve Jobs went to India. |
C.Steve Jobs was A GREAT SALESMAN. |
D.Steve Wozniak was loyal. |
A.Steve Jobs was a computer Genius |
B.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were lucky |
C.Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked well together |
D.Steve Wozniak liked a quiet life |
Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, made his first public appearance since going on medical leave six weeks ago, taking the stage at a San Francisco media event to introduce the iPad 2, the second generation of the company’s tablet computer.
Thin but energetic, Mr. Jobs showed off a thinner iPad. “ We’ve been working on this product for a while and I just didn’t want to miss this day,” he said.
His absence has concerned investors, especially since the group has given no details of his condition. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 and had a liver transplant during almost six moths of medical leave in 2009. People close to him said last month his health had been changing.
Apple’s stock rose more than 2 percent in the minutes after Mr. Jobs began speaking, then gave up some of its gain as he detailed the iPad 2.
The iPad 2 will go on sale in black and white versions in the US on March 11 and in 26 other countries, including the UK and Germany, on March 25. The table is Apple’s biggest product launch since the iPhone three years ago, and is comparable to the iPhone as the most expected in Apple’s history.
Most of the improvements in the latest version had been expected, including front and rear-facing video, which allows video conferencing between iPads, Mac computers and the most recent iPhones and iPods, a larger speaker, a faster processor and other upgrades. The iPad 2 is one-third thinner than the original tablet and slightly lighter, with a 9.7-inch touchscreen. It can run movies, books, games and a complete range of applications. In the US it will work with AT&T and Verizon, the top two mobile carriers. The pricing will be the same to the 2010 iPad at its introduction, ranging from $499 to $829 in six models. But Apple dropped prices on the older iPad on Wednesday by $100 across the board.
Apple has made the most of its year-long head start in tablets, selling 15,000,000 units of the older iPad last year and taking about 85 percent of the market. Forrester predicted that the iPad 2 would clain 80 percent of the US market this year, or 20,000,000 out of 24,000,000 total shipped. This prediction was based on both the technical improvements to the iPad 2, and the distribution difficulties and higher prices for Apple’s rivals.
Motorola, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Samsung and others have brought out competing tablets, many based on Google’s Android software.
Mr. Jobs said the rest of the field was still catching up with the first iPad and their markets for applications designed for tablets had, at best, 100 small programs. This compares with 65,000 on Apple’s applications store.
【小题1】Why are the investors of Apple worried according to the text?
A.Apple’s stock price changes a lot |
B.Steve Jobs’ health condition is not stable |
C.The iPad 2 has some technical drawbacks |
D.Apple faces strong competition from other companies. |
A.the weight | B.the speaker |
C.the thickness | D.the pricing at the introduction |
A.about 15,000,000 | B.about 17,000,000 |
C.about 20,000,000 | D.about 24,000,000 |
A.the low price |
B.the Android software |
C.the full kinds of models |
D.the tens of thousands of applications |
A.Jobs on Stage to Introduce iPad 2 |
B.iPad 2 Better than the Original |
C.Best Applications for iPad 2 |
D.iPad 2 vs. Competitors |