- 试题详情及答案解析
- 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.”
【小题1】Why did Jobs’ mother abandon him? (within 6 words)
【小题2】What did Jobs do half a year later in college? (within 5 words)
【小题3】When was Jobs removed from Apple? (within 2 words)
【小题4】What happened to Apple after Jobs left it？(within 10 words)
【小题5】What do you think is the most important thing to lead Jobs to success? (1 word)
- 答案：【小题1】Because she wanted a girl(daughter)./ Because she didn’t want a boy(son).
【小题2】He dropped out./He left the university./He gave up college life.
【小题3】At 30./ In 1985.
【小题4】（It was）under heavy pressure and suffered heavy losses.
【小题5】Interest.