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兵团四校2017—2018学年第一学期期中联合考试

英语试卷（问卷）

（高一年级使用）

（卷面分值：120分 考试时间：100分钟）

第一部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

When Steve Jobs was born on February 24,1955, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption(收养) because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him？” So his mother gave him to his future parents. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but decided to drop out because it was so expensive .

At 20, he and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Jobs named their company—Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent at an orchard (果园) in Oregon.

After 10 years of hard time, Apple computer eventually grew into a big company with over 4000 employees.

At 30, Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after that, Apple was under heavy pressure from rival (对手) Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appointed as Apple' CEO in1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned and introduced new products such as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.

Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

1.Why did Jobs’s mother decide to give him to other people?

A. Because her family was very poor.

B. Because Jobs’s father didn’t want to keep him.

C. Because she didn’t want a boy.

D. Because his future parents wanted Jobs eagerly.

2. Steve Jobs didn't finish his college education because he ________.

A.wanted to start a company. B.felt it was so expensive.