Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had ___36____ from just the two of us in a ___37____ into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just ___38___ our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you ___39___? Well, as Apple grew we ___40___ someone who I thought was very talented to ___41___ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge (分歧) and ___42___ we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors ___43___with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. ___44___ had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating（毁灭性的）. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to ___45___ for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to ___46___ on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been ___47___, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn’t see it then, but it ___48___ that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the ___49___ of being a ___50____ again, less sure about everything. It freed me to ___51___ one of the most creative periods of my life. I’m pretty sure __52___ of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was ___53___ tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Don’t lose ___54___. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t ___55___. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. －By Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer
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小题1:A 考察词组grow from…into…意思是从…成长为…,选择A grown
小题1:C 开头提到公司刚刚开始是in my parents garage,此处应当照应,故选C garage
小题1:C 考察对词义的理解,与creation(发明产品)搭配的应当是发布,故选择 C released
小题1:B 同样在开头有提及,我和伙伴started(创办)了苹果公司,故选择B started
小题1:D 此处的文意是随着公司壮大我们雇佣了更有才能的人,此处的雇佣即hire,故选择D hired
小题1:A 考察词组run a company运营公司,故选择A run
小题1:C 此处的and表示承接顺序,所以这里应当填一个表示时间先后的副词,故选择C eventually(最终)
小题1:D 考察词组side with……，意为支持……，故选择D sided
小题1:B 考察主语从句,此处填的单词与the focus of my entire对应,故选择B what
小题1:A 联系上文作者与同事的争吵,此处他应当是想为screwing up so badly而道歉,选择A apologize
小题1:D 考察词组dawn on……逐渐(被人)知晓,故选择D dawn
小题1:B 联系上文作者被开除的经历,此处应当填表示被拒绝意思的单词,故选B rejected
小题1:C 考察词组it turn out that意思为结果是……故选择C turned out
小题1:B 和上文的heaviness(沉重)形成对比的只有lightness(轻松),故选B lightness
小题1:C 由上文得知作者在被拒绝后一切都必须从头开始,所以他现在是一个新手(beginner),故选C beginner
小题1:A 考察词组enter a period进入一段时期，故选择A enter
小题1:B 后面的if提示我们这句话的意思是如果他没被开除将一事无成,所以选择表示否定意思的B none
小题1:D 由后面的but引导的句子的意思可得知前面的意思是品尝药物不是快乐的事,故选D awful
小题1:D 考察词组lose faith丧失信心/信仰,在此处courage不符合主旨,故选择D faith
小题1:A 此处的文意大致是不要安于现状。表示这层意思的只有A settle（安定下来）