2019高考英语二轮阅读理解高效训练(5)及解析

2019高考英语二轮阅读理解高效训练（5）及解析

Ⅱ. 阅读理解

第一节阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题旳四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选

项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑·

Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest

American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after

years-long and highly public battle with cancer. Mourners (哀悼者) gathered outside

his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Steve Jobs made technology fun. As tech leaders, they’re really happy if they

have one hit in their life. Steve Jobs has the Apple Ⅱ, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and

Pixar.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout. He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.

They supported his early interest in electronics. He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in 1976. They stayed at the company until 1985. That year, Steve

Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a debate with the chief executive.

Mr. Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer. He rejoined Apple in 1997 after

it bought NeXT. He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the

most valuable companies in the world today. However, Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple’s chief executive in August because of his health. He died a day after the company released a new iPhone

version that met with limited excitement. Steve left behind a company that only he could have built,

and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

President Obama said in a statement: by bu ilding one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, Steve Jobs exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity (独创力); by making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not

only accessible, but intuitive (有直觉力旳) and fun.

The fact that he was able to redesign American business from top to bottom and across is really

stunning. He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry