Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, considered among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56,after a year-long and highly public battle with cancer.

Jobs’ health had been a hot topic for years. His battle with cancer had been a deep concern to Apple fans, investors(投资人)and the company’s board alike.

Jobs’ death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. They Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words“Steve Jobs,1955-2011”.A message on the site read,“Apple has lost a creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless creations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve,” Apple said in a statement announcing Jobs’ passing.

The news caused an immediate outpouring of sympathy. Microsoft co –founder Bill Gates said he will miss Jobs “immensely”

“By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he was a typi-cal example of the spirit of American ingenuity(独创性).By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible. but fun, And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy millions of children and growu-ups alike.” said President Barack Obama.

Now, despite investor confidence in Cook, who has taken the place of his boss during three leaves of absence, there remain concerns about whether the company would stay creative without its founder at the helm.(掌舵)。

71.What can we learn about Jobs?

A.People knew little of his disease before he died.

B.He didn’t suffer much before his death.

C.A lot of people were concerned about his health.

D.He didn’t  know that he was seriously ill.

72.The black-and-white picture of Steve Jobs is featured to       .

A.tell people the story of Steve Jobs     B.let more people learn about Apple

C.seek support for his battle with cancer D.announce that Jobs is dead

73.We can learn from the text that Apple       .

A.is busy looking for a new CEO to replace Jobs.

B.sings high praise for Jobs’ contributions.

C.didn’t trust Jobs any longer after he got ill.

D.helped Jobs win the public battle with cancer.

74.After Steve’s death,       .

A.Cook will be the leader of Apple.

B.Bill Gates will take over Apple.

C.Apple won’t no longer be so creative.

D.President Coama is still confident in Apple.

75.Where might you read the text?

A.In an English newspaper.       B.In Apple.com homepage.

C.In a storybook for children    D.In Obama’s speeches.

      

My mother-in-law, Dorothy, is showing me the red notebook that’s almost as precious to her as my husband’s baby pictures. Inside the notebook is a list of the books she has read since 2007. For some people waking up in the middle of the night is a terrible thing. But for my mother-in-law, that time is a gift. At 87, she is getting the education she never had by working her way through great literature. She has now read close to 100 books, including every single novel by Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Thomas Mann.

My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl, although she can also be a very tough critic, writing “VG’ for “ very good” in the margins next to her favorites. So far, only a handful of books have received the top prize.

Born in Ridgefield, Conn, Dorothy was the youngest daughter of an Italian gardener. She taught herself English by reading The New York Times. Eager to come to Manhattan, she became a nurse, married a dentist and spent the next several decades keeping the house and raising a family. In her later years, she put her nursing skills to good use by taking care of my father-in-law, who had lung cancer. There were many trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night and then a long hospital stay. She stayed awake to watch over him for 15 hours a day. Always a light sleeper, she developed sleeplessness as a result of the stress.

It worsened after he died. Deeply sad and lonely for the first time in her life, she began waking up around 2am. Julian and Sylvia, the elderly couple next door suggest she read literature. And so Julian, a great lover of literature, became her “professor”, providing books from his large library. Suddenly the terrifying hole turned onto a world of amazing characters.

1.Why is Dorothy considered a tough critic?

   A. Because no books are inspiring enough in her eyes.                        

B. Because only a few books are thought highly of by her.

   C. Because she only reads books by famous writers.                         

D. Because she finds fault with every book she reads.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

   A. the books Dorothy has read were bought by her husband.                   

B. the couple next door are college professors.

   C. the author loves literature too.                                         

D. Dorothy was a great wife.

3.The underlined part “the terrifying hole” in the last paragraph refers to _____.

   A. the frightening death                                                   

B. Dorothy’s lack of education

   C. waking up in the middle of the night                                    

D. a hole in a book that Dorothy read

4. What helped Dorothy get over the sadness and loneliness of losing her husband?

   A. Living with her son.                                                 

B. Reading literature.

   C. Seeing her son’s baby pictures.                                         

 D. Talking with neighbors.

 

The manager of the sales department is kept busy all day. After he has solved one problem, another is sure to _______.

A．raise

B．rise

C．arise

D．be appeared

 

Here in the hills were buffaloes (野牛). I had even, in my very young days — when I could not live till I had killed one of each kind of African animal — shot a bull out there. Later on, when I was not so interested to shoot as to watch the wild animals, I had been out to see them again. But twice I had to go back without success.

But one afternoon as I was having tea with some friends outside the house, Denys came flying from Nairobi and went over our heads westwards; a little while after he turned and came back and landed on the farm. I drove down to the plane to bring him back, but he would not get out of his plane.

“The buffaloes are out feeding in the hills,” he said, “come out and have a look at them.”

“I cannot come,” I said. “I have got a tea-party up at the house.”

“But we will go and see them and be back in a quarter of an hour,” he said.

This sounded to me like the suggestions which people make to you in a dream. So I went up with him. It did not take us long to see the buffaloes from the air; we counted them as they peacefully mixed and separated on the open ground closed in by bushes. There was one very old big black bull, and a number of young ones; if a stranger had come near to them they would have heard or smelt him at once, but they were not prepared for something from the air. They heard the noise of our machine and stopped feeding, but they did not seem to be able to look up. In the end they realized that something very strange was about; the old bull first walked out in front of the others. Suddenly he began to go down the valley side and after a moment he broke into a run. The whole group now followed him, rushing hurriedly down into the buses. In a small wood of low trees they stopped and kept close together. Here they believed themselves to be out of sight. We flew up and away. It was like having been taken there by a secret unknown route.

When I came back to my tea-party the teapot on the stone was still so hot that I burned my fingers on it.

1.The writer drove to the plane ________.

A．to pick Denys up and take him back to the tea-party

B．to have a talk with Denys

C．to do some repairs for Denys

D．because they wanted to go up in the plane

2. Denys said it would only take a quarter of an hour to go and see the buffaloes ________.

A．but it took much longer than that	B．and he was right
C．if they went by a secret route	D．but it wasn’t a serious suggestion

3.When the buffaloes heard the noise of the plane, they ________.

A．looked up at it	B．ran away immediately
C．continued feeding	D．were uncertain what to do