WozandIstartedAppleinmyparents

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Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had ___36____ from just the two of us in a ___37____ into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just ___38___ our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you ___39___? Well, as Apple grew we ___40___ someone who I thought was very talented to ___41___ the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge (分歧) and ___42___ we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors ___43___with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. ___44___ had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating（毁灭性的）.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to ___45___ for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to ___46___ on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been ___47___, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it ___48___ that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the ___49___ of being a ___50____ again, less sure about everything. It freed me to ___51___ one of the most creative periods of my life.
I’m pretty sure __52___ of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was ___53___ tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Don’t lose ___54___. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t ___55___. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it.
－By Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer

A．grown B．begun C．removed D．kept

A．bedroom B．farm C．garage D．kitchen

A．announced B．declared C．released D．coped

A．managed B．started C．installed D．entitled

A．provided B．sorted C．promoted D．hired

A．run B．involve C．open D．engage

A．instantly B．constantly C．eventually D．frequently

A．risked B．supported C．pleased D．sided

A．Which B．What C．Whichever D．Whatever

A．apologize B．reveal C．head D．stand

A．imply B．put C．impress D．dawn

A．resisted B．rejected C．solved D．interrupted

A．made out B．come out C．turned out D．tried out

A．darkness B．lightness C．carelessness D．business

A．waiter B．pioneer C．beginner D．visitor

A．enter B．relieve C．preview D．expect

A．something B．none C．everything D．anything

A．careful B．acceptable C．hopeful D．awful

A．courage B．patience C．imagination D．faith

A．settle B．recall C．claim D．deny

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