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考试 ·高考英语 无忧乐学 2011年第12期 阅馕理解愿创练习 钟海发 高级教师 江西省瑞金第一中学 Passage A Steven Paul Jobs(斯蒂芬 ·乔布斯)was born in San Francisco on Feb．24，1955，abandoned by his biological parents fr0m Syria and then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs- Mr．Jobs developed an early interest in electronics．He waS guided by a neighbor，an electronics hobbyist He wa S brash from an early age．As an eighth grader，after discovering that a crucial part was missing frOm a frequency countar he WaS assembling，he talephoned William Hewie~，the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard(惠普公司)．Mr．Hewlett spoke with the boy for 20 minutes，prepared a bag of parts for him to pick up and offered him a j0b as a summer intern． Mr．Jobs mat Mr．Wozniak while a~ending the high schoo1．111e two took an introductory electronics class there． The spark of their partnership Wa S provided by Mr．Wozniak’S mother．Mr．Wozniak had graduated fr0m high school and enrolled at the University of Callfornia．when she sent him an arlJcle“Secrets of the Uttle Blue Box’。wh ich detailed an underground hobby ist culture of young men known as phone phreaks who were illegally exploring the naUon’S phone system Mr．Wozniak shared the arlJcle with Mr．Jobs，and the two set out to seek an abstruse figure idenlJfied in the article as Cap．in Crunch．111e man had taken the name frOm his discovery that a whistle coming in boxes of cereal waS tuned to a frequency that made it possible to make free long-distance calls simply by blowing the whistle next to a phone handset Captain Crunch wa S John Draper．a fOrmer electronic technician．Learning that the two young hobbyrists were searching for him，Mr．Draper had COma to Mr．Wozniak’S dormitory room，where the three of them held a meeting． Based on information lhey collected from Mr．