16.Jobs quickly became bored with college.He liked being at Reed,just not taking the required classes.In fact he was surprised when he found out that,for all of its hippie aura,there were strict course requirements.When Wozniak came to visit,Jobs waved his schedule at him and complained,"They are making me take all these courses."Woz replied,"Yes,that's what they do in college."Jobs refused to go to the classes he was assigned and instead went to the ones he wanted,such as a dance class where he could enjoy both the creativity and the chance to meet girls."I would never have refused to take the courses you were supposed to,that's a difference in our personality,"Wozniak marveled.
Jobs also began to feel guilty,he later said,about spending so much of his parents'money on an education that did not seem worthwhile."All of my workingclass parents'savings were being spent on my college tuition,"he recounted in a famous commencement address at Stanford."I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay."
He didn't actually want to leave Reed; he just wanted to quit paying tuition and taking classes that didn't interest him.Remarkably,Reed tolerated that."He had a very inquiring mind that was enormously attractive,"said the dean of students,Jack Dudman."He refused to accept automatically received truths,and he wanted to examine everything himself."Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition.
"The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me,and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting,"he said.Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beautifully drawn."I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces,about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations,about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful,historical,artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture,and I found it fascinating."
It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology.In all of his products,technology would be married to great design,elegance,human touches,and even romance.He would be in the fore of pushing friendly graphical user interfaces.The calligraphy course would become iconic in that regard."If I had never dropped in on that single course in college,the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac,it's likely that no personal computer would have them."
In the meantime Jobs decked out a bohemian existence on the fringes of Reed.He went barefoot most of the time,wearing sandals when it snowed.Elizabeth Holmes made meals for him,trying to keep up with his obsessive diets.He returned soda bottles for spare change,continued his treks to the free Sunday dinners at the Hare Krishna temple,and wore a down jacket in the heatless garage apartment he rented for $20 a month.When he needed money,he found work at the psychology department lab maintaining the electronic equipment that was used for animal behaviour experiments.Occasionally Chrisann Brennan would come to visit.Their relationship sputtered along erratically.But mostly he tended to the stirrings of his own soul and personal quest for enlightenment.
"I came of age at a magical time,"he reflected later."Our consciousness was raised by Zen,and also by LSD."Even later in life he would credit psychedelic drugs for making him more enlightened."Taking LSD was a profound experience,one of the most important things in my life.LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin,and you can't remember it when it wears off,but you know it.It reinforced my sense of what was important-creating great things instead of making money,putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
65.Jobs and Wozniak differed inB.
A.a(chǎn)pproach to freedom B.a(chǎn)ttitude to requirements
C.a(chǎn)ppetite for knowledge D.a(chǎn)ffection for college life
66.One factor in Job's decision to leave college is thatD.
A.his family was in absolute poverty
B.he wanted to be independent of his parents
C.the college couldn't prepare him for his set goal
D.he wouldn't have his parents'money wasted
67.From Jack Dudman's statement,we can see that Jobs wasB.
A.rather difficult to get along with B.very serious about existing beliefs
C.quite good at solving problems D.too stubborn to change his mind
68.The underlined word"audit"in paragraph 3 means"C".
A.give successfully
B.miss occasionally
C.a(chǎn)ttend informally
D.conduct irregularly
69.Jobs worked on typefaces while suffering from a hard lifeA.
A.to bring something great into existence
B.to prove his value to the whole wo rld
C.to make himself wealthy for a better life
D.to show college was unimportant to him
70.Which of the following can be the proper title for the passage?D
A.Stay Out B.Work Out C.Hold Out D.Drop Out.
分析 短文主要講了Jobs輟學(xué)之事,包括他為何會(huì)輟學(xué),以及輟學(xué)之后潛心于其他事情.
解答 65.B,細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子When Wozniak came to visit.Jobs waved his schedule at him and complained."They are making me take all these coyrses."Wozniak replied,"Yes,that's what they do in college可知,Jobs和Wozniak在對(duì)于大學(xué)要求的態(tài)度是不同的,故答案為B.
66.D,細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子Jobs also began to fed guilty about spending so much of his parents'money on an education that did not seem worthwhile."All of my working-class parents'savings were being spent on my college tuition(學(xué)費(fèi)).可知,Jobs離開(kāi)大學(xué)的一個(gè)原因就是不想浪費(fèi)父母辛苦掙的錢(qián),故答案為D.
67.B,推理判斷題,根據(jù)句子He refused to accept automatically received truths,and he wanted to examine everything himself可知,Jobs認(rèn)真對(duì)待現(xiàn)有的想法,故答案為B.
68.C,詞義猜測(cè)題,根據(jù)后面的描述stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition,即使在沒(méi)交學(xué)費(fèi)后也同意他非正式地上課,讓他和朋友待在宿舍,可以推測(cè)該詞的意思是"非正式地上課",故答案為C.
69.A,細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces(字體),about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations,about what makes great typography great可知,Jobs在想創(chuàng)造出一些偉大的事情時(shí)專心于學(xué)習(xí)字體,故答案為A.
70.D,標(biāo)題歸納題,短文主要講了Jobs輟學(xué)之事,包括他為何會(huì)輟學(xué),以及輟學(xué)之后潛心于其他事情,總體圍繞"輟學(xué)",故答案為D.
點(diǎn)評(píng) 題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題,做題時(shí)結(jié)合原文和題目有針對(duì)性的找出相關(guān)語(yǔ)句進(jìn)行仔細(xì)分析,結(jié)合選項(xiàng)選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測(cè),一定要做到有理有據(jù).