新潮实用英语综合教程 Unit 6.ppt

Words Phrases Talk about Steve Jobs Background References Steve Jobs Speech mp3 Text Study Exercises Practical Writing Steve Jobs (1955-?) American computer executive, co-founder of the Apple Computer Company. Shortly after birth, he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, of Mount View, California. He went to high school in Los Altos, California. He later worked there with Stephen Wozniak, an electronics inventor. In 1972 Jobs graduated from high school and entered Reed College, dropping out after only one semester and joining Atari in 1974 as a designer of video games. After several months he left his job and made a trip to India in search of spiritual enlightenment(启发,启迪 ). Upon his return to California, Jobs persuaded Wozniak to work with him. They formed the Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976.Throughout the early 1980s Jobs led the company. In 1985 poor sales and internal problems at Apple led to restructuring and to Jobs’ forced resignation from the company. He took five Apple employees with him and started a new computer company, NeXT Inc. He also purchased Pixar. After the 1995 film Toy Story, animated by Pixar for the Walt Disney Company and being a success, Jobs floated（发行）the company in December 1995: the resulting rise in share values made him a billionaire overnight. He died of pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌) on Nov. 5, 2011. give birth 生孩子；产仔 at birth 生下来时 birth control 避孕；节育 birth weight 出生体重；初生重 date of birth 出生日期 birth rate 出生率 by birth adv. 生来；在血统上 * * 我敢肯定，如果当年我没被苹果公司炒鱿鱼，这一切就不会发生。良药苦口，可是我想病人需要它。有时候，人生会给你当头一棒，不要丧失信心。我深信，这些年来让我继续走下去的唯一理由是我钟爱我所做的事情。你得找出你的挚爱，工作上是如此，对相爱的人也是如此。工作是你人生的重要组成部分，要想使自己真正满足所从事的工作，唯一的方法就是从事你心中的伟大工作，而从事伟大工作的唯一方法是钟爱你所从事的工作。如果你还没找到，继续找，别停顿。尽你全心全力，你知道你一定会找到。而且，如同任何伟大的关系，事情只会随着时间愈来愈好。所以，在你找到之前，继续找，别停顿。 1) v.eat or drink a small amount of something to see what it is like品尝，察觉 Taste this coffee to see if you like it. I tasted the fish, but I didn’t like it. 2) n. sensation caused in the ton