人教版高考英语一轮复习必修5各单元检测卷（共五套，附解析）.pdf

人教版高考英语一轮复习必修5各单元检测卷 （共五套，附解析） Unit 1 Great scientists I .阅读理解 Steve Jobs, who passed away on October 5,2011, was an American computer enterpriser and inventor. He was co founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Corporation. Jobs also previously served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios;he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. In the late 1970s, Jobs一along with Apple co founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others 一 designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series.In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC s mouse driven graphical user interface（界面），which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple, s 1996 buyout （收购）of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was turned out as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50. 1 percent until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently, Jobs became Disney s largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney s Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple s CEO. Jobs died in California at the age of 56, seven years after being diagnosed with cancer. At the time of his resignation, and after his death, he was widely described as a pioneer and genius 一 perhaps one of the foremost 一 in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and a man who had deeply ch