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Project :
Collect more information about Steve Jobs with the help of the Internet. Complete it with images into a file.
Solution
Jobs was raised by adoptive parents in Cupertino, California, located in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Though he was interested in engineering, his passions of youth varied. He dropped out of Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, took a job at Atari Corporation as a video game designer in early 1974, and saved enough money for a pilgrimage to India to experience Buddhism.
Back in Silicon Valley in the autumn of 1974, Jobs reconnected with Stephen Wozniak, a former high school friend who was working for the Hewlett-Packard Company. When Wozniak told Jobs of his progress in designing his own computer logic board, Jobs suggested that they go into business together, which they did after Hewlett-Packard formally turned down Wozniak’s design in 1976. The Apple l, as they called the logic board, was built in the Jobses’ family garage with money they obtained by selling Jobs’ Volkswagen minibus and Wozniak’s programmable calculator.
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(a) _______________________________________________________
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- The heaviness of being successful was replaced ______.
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My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple when I was 20. In 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company. And then I got fired. It was devastating. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I had did. And so, I decided to start over. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company Next, a company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar is now the world’s most successful animation studio, bought Apple next. I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. |
A2. The writer Steve Jobs gives the readers some advice for life, list at least two of the important advices given by him in the passage:
- ______
- ______
A3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words given below:
(devastating, renaissance, current, creative)
- The invention of the internet has brought about a ______ in communication.
- We should read the newspaper to keep ourselves updated on the ______ affairs.
- The earthquake had a ______ effect on the life of the people.
- The Art teacher is very ______, she always comes up with new ideas.
A4. Do as directed:
- Pixar is the world’s most successful animation studio.
(Rewrite the sentence in Positive degree) - Don’t lose faith.
(Rewrite as an Assertive sentence)
A5. What does the second story of Jobs convey to you?
