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1、大学英语四级考试真题汇总资料仅供参考Part I Writing (30 minutes)Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B
2、), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.haveandForThe MagicianThe revolution that Steve Jobs led is only just beginningWhenit came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match
3、 SteveJobs. His product launches, at which hewould stand alone on a black stage andproduce as ifby magic an “incredible” newelectronic gadget (小器具 )in front of anamazed crowd, were the performances of a资料仅供参考master showman. All computers do is fetch and work with numbers, he once explained, but do i
4、t fast enough and “the results appear to be magic ”. Mr Jobs, who died that magic into elegantly designed, easy-to-use products.The reaction to his death, with peopleleaving candles and flowers outside Applestores and politicians singing praises onthe internet, is proof that Mr Jobs hadbecome someth
5、ing much more significantthanjust a clever money-maker. He stood out inthree ways-as a technologist,as a corporate( 公司的 )leaderand as somebody who was ableto make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets. Strangely, it is this last quality that may have the deepest effect
6、on the way people live. Theera of personal technology is in many ways just beginning.资料仅供参考As a technologist,Mr Jobs was differentbecause he was not an engineer-andthatwashis great strength. Instead he was keenlyinterested in productdesignand aesthetics( 美学 ), and in making advanced technologysimple
7、 to use. He repeatedly took anexisting but half-formed idea-themouse-driven computer, the digital musicplayer, the smartphone, the tabletcomputer( 平板电脑 )-and showed the rest ofthe industry how to do it properly. Rivalfirms competed with each other to followwhere he led. Inthe process he brought abou
8、tgreat changes incomputing,music,telecomsand the news businessthat were painfulforexisting firms but welcomed by millions ofconsumers.Within the wider business world, a manwho liked to see himself as a hippy (嬉皮士 ), permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those
9、corporate giants as one of the资料仅供参考greatestchiefexecutivesof his time.Thatwas partlydue to his talents:showmanship,strategic vision, an astonishing attentionto detailand a dictatorialmanagementstylewhich many bosses must have envied.But mostof all it was the extraordinary trajectory( 轨迹 )ofhis life
10、.His fallfrom grace inthe1980s, followed by his return to Apple in1996 aftera periodin thewilderness,isaninspiration to any businessperson whosecareer has taken a turn for the worse. Theway in which Mr Jobs revived the failingcompany he had co-foundedand turned itintothe world s biggest techfirm (bi
11、ggereventhan Bill Gates s Microsoft, the companythat had outsmartedApple so dramaticallyinthe 1980s), sounds like something from aHollywood movie.But what was perhaps most astonishing about Mr Jobs was the absolute loyalty he managedto inspire in customers. Many Apple users feel themselves to be part of a