Steve Jobs,__ former CEO of Apple Inc.,died on Oct.5th,2011,

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

小题2: How did the author feel after the diagnosis?

A．Angry

B．Excited

C．Optimistic

D．Hopeless

小题3:What does the author think of death?

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

小题4: In the author’s opinion, we should ____________.
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***]）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

小题2:steve jobs went to a temple because .

a．he was a buddhist

b．his family were indian

c．he had very little money

d．he was inspired by the beatles

小题3:which of the following is not true?

a．steve jobs was uneducated.

b．steve jobs went to india.

c．steve jobs was a great salesman.

d．steve wozniak was loyal.

小题4:form the article, apple was successful because .

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’ death _______ quickly and soon became the talk of the whole world.

A．expressed

B．spread

C．performed

D．whispered

The designer of the Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with either his schoolmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, which few people saw the value of. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out halfway.
Steve Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months and then he set out to tour India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better.
After he returned from India, he begin to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steve Jobs set about making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple Computer in his bedroom and built it in his garage(车库). He gave the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once on an orchard(果园) in Oregon.
His Apple Computer was so successful that Steve Jobs soon became worldwide famous. But unluckily, he died of illness in 2011.
小题1:Steve Jobs when he was in school.

A．was an outstanding student

B．didn’t do very well

C．was always praised by others

D．didn’t learn anything

小题2:The underlined word “value” means .

A．beauty

B．chance

C．importance

D．hope

小题3:Steve Jobs .

A．received excellent college education

B．didn’t go to college at all

C．studied in college for 4 years

D．didn’t finish his college education

小题4:Steve Jobs named his computer company “Apple” because .

A．apple was his favorite fruit

B．he designed the computer under an apple tree

C．he wanted to remember the happy time on the orchard

D．the computer was designed on the orchard

小题5:Steve Job’s would be the most important thing for his lifetime success.

A．“failure” in school

B．stay on the orchard

C．travel on India

D．new ideas

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Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, was not a good student when he was in school. At that time, he always got into trouble with his schoolmates. When he went to college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out（退学）. But he was full of new ideas.
After that, Steve Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company. He worked there only for a few months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and a new chance to change his life.
Steve Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the first Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name “Apple”just because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent in an apple orchard.
His first Apple Computer was a great success. Because of this, Steve Jobs soon became famous all over the world.
小题1:Steven Jobs always got into trouble with _______ in school.

A．his schoolmates

B．his parents

C．his teachers

D．his brothers

小题2:Steven Jobs designed the first Apple Computer with his friend _______.

A．in his school

B．in his company

C．in his garage

D．at home

小题3:Which of the following is not true?

A．Steve Jobs didn’t finish his college.

B．Steve Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company for a few months.

C．Steve Jobs soon became famous all over the world because of his first Apple computer.

D．Steve Jobs chose the name “Apple” just because he liked eating apples.

Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., died on Oct 5 ^th , 2011, after_____ year-long battle with _____ cancer.

A．the; a; /

B．/; the; the

C．a; the; /

D．the ; / ; the

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.

小题2:In what respect are the iPad 2 and the 2010 iPad exactly alike?

A．the weight	B．the speaker
C．the thickness	D．the pricing at the introduction

小题3:How many tablet computers were sold in the market last year?

A．about 15,000,000	B．about 17,000,000
C．about 20,000,000	D．about 24,000,000

小题4:What makes Apple’s tablets superior to the competing tablets of other companies?

A．the low price

B．the Android software

C．the full kinds of models

D．the tens of thousands of applications

小题5:What is the best title for the text?

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

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