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PAGE / NUMPAGES 江苏海安县202X高考英语二轮阅读理解基础训练（3） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 Steve Jobs made technology fun．The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer．Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world． Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said If you actually look at a tech leader, theyre really happy if they have one hit in their life．Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar． Steve Jobs was a college dropout．He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant．They supported his early interest in electronics． He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six．They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five．That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive． Mr．Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer．He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT．He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today． Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a great visionary and leader and a marketing genius（天才）． President Obama said in a statement: By building one of the planets most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity．By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun． David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City．He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business． The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce lop to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）．He probably will be considered an industrial gia