Have you listened to music on an iPod? Used a computer
at home? Those are just two of the ways your life was touched by the work of
Steve Jobs.
Jobs, one founder of Apple Computers, died on
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. He had been fighting with cancer
since 2004.
Steven Jobs was born in Los Altos, California. He and
his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, designed and built the first Apple computer
in his parents’ garage in the 1970s. The Apple II, built when Jobs was just 21
years old, was the first personal computer to be widely sold to the public.
Steven Jobs didn’t stop there. He went on to invent
more devices (設(shè)備) that allowed people to bring their own
creativity to computing: the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. People
found his products beautiful and easy to use.
Jobs also changed the music and film industries. He
started Pixar, a film production company in 1986. Toy Story was the world’s
first computer-animated feature film (電腦動(dòng)畫(huà)電影).
“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators
— brave enough to think differently, confident enough to believe he could
change the world, and clever enough to do it,” said President Barack Obama. “By
making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the
information revolution not only easy to reach, but fun ... And there may be no
greater praise to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned
of his death on a device he invented.”
All around the world, people are talking about the
effects that Jobs’ creations have had. By creating products that surprised
people, he changed the way people worked and lived their everyday lives.
1.Which of the following about Steve Jobs is NOT true?
A.He was born
in California in 1955.
B.He built the
Apple II in 1970.
C.He set up a
film production company at 31.
D.He was found
to suffer from cancer at 49.
2.The underlined word “innovators” in Paragraph 6
could best be replaced by _____.
A.inventors B.businessmen C.producers D.founders
3.According to Barack Obama, the highest praise for
Steve Jobs is that _____.
A.his products
are widely used all over the world
B.his products
are thought to be beautiful and easy to use
C.people all
over the world are sad at his death
D.people
learned about his death from his products
4.Jobs changed the way we work and live by _____.
A.building the
first personal computer
B.making
computer-animated feature films
C.developing
the music industry
D.creating
surprising products