自考英语二讲义0805

II. Text Learning

An Unwanted Baby, Steve Jobs

1 Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks. He may not

be perfect but he pulled together the most fantastic act by overcoming

Microsoft, the movie industry and the music business. Jobs followed his dream

and led a revolution in the computing world.

2 Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. His

biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson and decided

to put him up for adoption. (1)Joanne had a college education, and she insisted

that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, the

candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: Clara didn't

graduate from college and Paul only attended high school. When she found out

that both his future parents had never graduated from college,

she refused to

sign the adoption papers. She only relented a few months later and agreed to

have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they would send him

to college.

本部分重点及难点：

显示重难点解析

1. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of

her boy be just as well educated.当谓语动词是"一坚持，二命令，三建议，四要求"时，即insist, order,

command, advise, suggest, propose, demand, request, require, ask以及desire,

recommend, prefer, decide, urge等词时，从句谓语用should+动词原形。We suggest that he be

present at the meeting in time.His painful expression suggested that he was ill

at ease.

请认真答题，答题结果将记入知识点测评的成绩！【单选题】17. From the anxious expression on his face, we can

clearly see his strong desire that his mother ______ from the

major illness

soon.A．recoversB．recoverC．will recoverD．has recovered【答案】B【解析】本题考查虚拟语气。desire后的从句用虚拟语气，谓语动词为"should+动词原形"，should通常省略。本句的意思是"从他脸上焦急的表情，我们可以很清楚地看到他希望母亲从这场大病中快速痊愈的强烈愿望。"【知识点】虚拟语气

3 Steve Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was too

expensive. Recalling his time there he said, "I didn't have a dorm room, so I

slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cents

deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday

night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

4 At 20, Steve Jobs and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage

on April 1, 1976. Later that year, they debuted the Apple I and a local store

offered to buy 50 machines. To finance the production, they had to sell their