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As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself, not interested in team sports or other group activities.He enrolled in the HewlettPackard Explorer Club. There he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.
At that time almost all computers were so large that one could fill a room, and so costly that individuals could not afford to buy them.Advances in electronics, however, meant that the parts of a computer were getting smaller and the power of the computer was increasing.
By 1980 the personal computer era was well underway.Apple was continually forced to improve its products to remain ahead, as more competitors entered the marketplace. Apple introduced the Apple Ⅲ， but the new model suffered technical and marketing problems.It was removed from the market.
Early in 1983 Jobs unveiled the Lisa.It did not sell well，however, because it was more expensive than personal computers sold by competitors.Apple"s biggest competitor was International Business Machines (IBM). By 1983 it was estimated that Apple had lost half of its market share ( part of an industry"s sales that a specific company has) to IBM.
In 1984 Apple introduced a revolutionary new model, the Macintosh.The Macintosh did not sell well to businesses，however.It lacked features other personal computers had, such as a corresponding high quality printer. The failure of the Macintosh signaled the beginning of Jobs"s downfall at Apple.
Late in 1988 the NeXT computer was introduced, aimed at the educational market.The product was very userfriendly，and had a fast processing speed, excellent graphics displays，and an outstanding sound system.Despite the warm reception，however, the NeXT machine never caught on. It was too costly, had a blackandwhite screen, and could not be linked to other computers or run common software.
小题1:When did Steven Jobs first get the chance to catch sight of a computer?
| A．In 1955. | B．In 1961. |
| C．In 1967. | D．In 1980. |
| A．All the computes used to be large enough to fill a room. |
| B．Before 1980, Apple was not successful in the field of personal computers. |
| C．Steven Jobs was born in Silicon Valley. |
| D．Apple and IBM competed for sales of personal computers. |
| A．was popular among the young people |
| B．turned out to be a failure |
| C．caused more competitors to come into the market |
| D．could be linked to a printer |
| A．The Apple Ⅲ. | B．The Macintosh |
| C．The NeXT. | D．The Lisa. |
| A．few people could afford it |
| B．it was not fast enough |
| C．it was not easy to use |
| D．it lacked super sound system |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析
小题1:解析 细节推断题。乔布斯出生于1955年，再根据第二段倒数第二句“There he saw his first computer at the age of twelve.”可以判断答案选C，即1955＋12＝1967。
答案 C
小题2:解析 细节理解题。根据第五段的内容可知，苹果在销售私人电脑过程中遇到了劲敌IBM公司，失去了一半的市场份额，故D项正确。其他选项与文章内容不符。
答案 D
小题3:解析 推理判断题。根据第四段后两句的“but the new model suffered technical and marketing problems.It was removed from the market.”可以推知，Apple Ⅲ没有取得成功，因为它遇到了技术和营销问题而退出市场。
答案 B
小题4:解析 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的最后一句“The failure of the Macintosh signaled the beginning of Jobs"s downfall at Apple.”可知答案。Macintosh的失败预示着乔布斯在苹果的地位下降的开始。
答案 B
小题5:解析 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段最后一句中的“It was too costly”可知，NeXT没有火起来其中一个原因就是太贵了，几乎没有人能买得起。
答案 A
核心考点
试题【Steven Jobs was born on February 24,1955，in San Francisco，California，and was ad】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her mom. “I don’t know how to use a computer,” she admits.
Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. “I felt there was a need for a book like this,” she says. “I didn’t want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we’re self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease.”
But she hasn’t always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up－again－and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. “Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other,” she insists. “It doesn’t do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I’ve come to realize the importance of that as I’ve grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”
小题1:Why did Mary feel regretful?
| A．She didn’t achieve her ambition. |
| B．She didn’t take care of her mother. |
| C．She didn’t complete her high school. |
| D．She didn’t follow her mother’s advice. |
| A．had two books published |
| B．received many career awards |
| C．knew how to use a computer |
| D．supported the JDRF by writing |
| A．living with diabetes | B．successful show business |
| C．service for an organization | D．remembrance of her mother |
| A．lost control of herself | B．began a balanced diet |
| C．tried to get a treatment | D．behaved in an adult way |
| A．Mary feels pity for herself. |
| B．Mary has recovered from her disease. |
| C．Mary wants to help others as much as possible. |
| D．Mary determines to go back to the dance floor. |
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my _______ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ________. My young professor was looking back at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had ________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said, still ________. “I am glad to see everyone is _______. Now let’s get started.”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the _______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the _______ discussion he led. With knowledge and good _______ he made the material come _______. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he _______ with were contagious(富有感染力的). I ______ the classroom not only ______ awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not _______ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it with _______. What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk your way through _______ then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too ______ not to live it well.
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For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.
However,soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upest because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back,but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of posion and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of posion, and then he sprayed the basement again.
A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.
After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.
小题1:What do we know about the author’s mother?
| A．She didn’t like insects at all. |
| B．She liked insects more than his father. |
| C．She cared for insects very much. |
| D．She could only tolerate a few insects. |
| A．cigarettes for himself | B．some poison |
| C．more coffee for his wife | D．some gasoline |
| A．they were no longer useful |
| B．the crickets were afraid of fires |
| C．they became the home of crickets |
| D．the dead crickets came back to life |
| A．the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets |
| B．the author’s parents learned to put up with insects |
| C．the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire |
| D．the author’s parents got divorced |
“Do you know ____ you and I are?” she asked. ____ I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman ____ desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, ____ how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?” “Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) ____.” “We don’t ____ ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story ____ one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What ____ me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) ______ in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen _____ in mid-air. She looked up ____ she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your _____?” Coolly, I heard myself _____, “I have a continuing program of research in the laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have ____ credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the ____ are in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of ____ in the clerk’s voice as she ____ in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was ____ by my lab assistants — ages 13, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great ____.
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Leaping on a narrow balance beam(平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.
To perfect her skills, Lola for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.
That’s especially impressive, she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift constantly. She often sees double and can’t how far away things are.
When she was little, her mom that even though she couldn’t see , she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the right away and gymnastics became her favorite.
Though learning gymnastics has been more for her than for some of her tournaments, she has never quit. She doesn’t let her stop her from doing anything that she wants to.
She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go.” says Lola.
To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most for anyone because it’s four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didn’t fall the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10---- her highest score yet.
Lola doesn’t want to be differently from the other girls on her team. At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision . She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn’t think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her attitude.
Lola never thinks about . She is presently at Level 7 while the highest is Level 10 in gymnastics. Her is to reach Level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she’s learned to other kids she grew up.
Lola is of all her hard work and success. She says it’s helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her for others is “just believe yourself”.
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