Steve Jobs made technology fun．The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer．Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world．
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life．Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar．"
Steve Jobs was a college dropout．He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant．They supported his early interest in electronics．
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six．They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five．That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive．
Mr．Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer．He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT．He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today．
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）"．
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity．By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun．"
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City．He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business．
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人驚奇的）．He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time．" David Carroll said．
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health．He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement．Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon．com．It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less．
小題1:Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?
A．He was very courageous in the face of cancer．
B．He became very rich though dropping out college．
C．He released a new iPhone version before death．
D．He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable．
小題2:Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?
A．After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer．
B．He made Apple very valuable once again in the world．
C．He developed a series of Apple products．
D．He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time．
小題3:What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?
A．Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation．
B．Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom．
C．Jobs eventually realized his American dream．
D．American people are good at inventing things．
小題4:Which of the following is true according to the text?
A．Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
B．Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years．
C．Jobs started his career in his family garage．
D．Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer．

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
文章是對蘋果的創(chuàng)始人史蒂芬喬布斯的個人簡介。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題 根據(jù)文章開頭“Steve Jobs made technology fun．”可知人們悼念他是因為他讓科技成為一鐘娛樂的第一人。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題 根據(jù)文中“...He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today...”可知喬布斯讓蘋果復(fù)活，所以說他是“市場奇才”
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題 根據(jù)句子前后可知這句話是說通過建立全球最偉大的公司，喬布斯是美國智慧的典型代表。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題 根據(jù)第七段By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage可知，他的公司是從車庫里開始的。
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As Jean improved, she found it increasingly difficult to play games at her father’s pool hall. “If I’d beat one of the guys, his friends would laugh at them about losing to me,” she says. Now Jean comes to the hall only weeks before a tournament when she plays Johnny Goon, her father’s pool manager.
That Johnny can beat her shows the gap that now exists in pool — as in other sports — between the top men and women competitors. “I’m supposedly the top woman player, but I’d have a hard time beating the number 50 man,” says Jean. “If I was a boy and played pool, I’d be a nobody.”
Jean thinks that women pool players still have a long way to go because pool has been a man’s game for so long. “When they think of pool players, people have this picture in their head of gambling(賭博) and smoke,” she says.
Jean won four of the seven games in these two years. She was as surprised as anyone else at her performance, even though she was a New York City tennis champion and center for her high-school basketball team. Jean does not take full credit for her achievements, saying, “I think what I have in sports is a gift from God, and that’s why I can get out there and do so well.”
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A．had become well-known at the age of 9
B．had achieved great fame at the age of 18
C．was often asked to play with men players
D．was refused to play in the U. S. Open for her young age
小題2:The letter Jean received before her first U. S. Open_____.
A．told her to arrive in time for the game
B．showed people’s doubt about her ability
C．told her about the basic rules of the game
D．invited her to compete in the U. S. Open
小題3:Jean Balukas believed that women pool players_____.
A．fall far behind men players
B．a(chǎn)ren’t suitable for a man’s game
C．a(chǎn)re impossible to beat any man player
D．have a bad reputation(名聲) for gambling and smoking
小題4:By saying the underlined words in the last paragraph Jean meant that _____.
A．women players had a long way to go
B．she wouldn’t stop before her great achievement
C．she had much confidence in the game
D．she achieved her success because of her born gift

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