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Steve Jobs was famous for starting Apple Computers. In a speech to graduating students at Stanford University, Jobs told students about some of life-changing experiences. Jobs believed these experiences helped him achieve success.

Job’s biological mother was a college student. As a young mother, she felt unable to bring Jobs up so she put him up for adoption. Job’s adopted parents were simple working-class people. When Jobs was 17, his parents used their saving to send him to college.

After six months of college, Jobs decided it was not for him. Around that time, he had read a quotation that went something like,“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”The quotation made him think about his life and his future. He started to question if he should stay in college. Was he doing what he really wanted to do? Eventually, he decided he had to change something; he decided to drop out of college.

Jobs was lucky because he knew what he loved to do. He started Apple Computers in his parents’ garage with a friend when he was 20. In just ten years, Apple grew into a $2 billion company. However in 1985, Jobs was fired from the company.

Jobs was shocked. He lost everything at once. He quickly realized that he still loved what he did, and over the next five years, he started two highly successful companies. next and Pixar. Jobs also met his future wife, Laurence. Jobs was happily married with a family, working for Apple again and living every day as if it were his last.

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Steve Jobs was famous for starting Apple Company. He believed that 1._______ helped him achieve success.

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Jobs’ adopted parents were simple working-class people. They 2.______ that they could only use their savings for Jobs’ college education.

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A quotation made Jobs think about his life and his future. After six months of college, Jobs didn’t think 3.________ and he decided to leave college.

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After4._____ of firing from Apple, quickly Jobs realized he still loved what he did and started two highly successful companies.

Conclusion

According to Jobs’ story, if we want to achieve success, we should make a right decision, do what we love, never give up and5._______

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job, while people with little or no education don't. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn't accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life getting education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don't need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and math need not be taught in detail(详细), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well?rounded(全面的) and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch good plays and most of them take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.

1.People with little or no education have chances to choose a good job.

A. more B. fewer C. many D. much

2.One of the earliest reasons of education was probably .

A. making a man lead a better life

B. teaching a man to write and think

C. making people get a way of living

D. teaching people to read good books

3.From the passage, we know that the writer thinks making a good living is for education.

A. an important reason

B. the main reason

C. the most important reason

D. the least important reason

4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. All people think the purpose of education is to make people get jobs.

B. People don't need to learn language or math at all.

C. Education is to make a man lead a better life.

D. Only education can make all people take an interest in the world.

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