B

　　Steven Paul Jobs(斯蒂芬·喬布斯)was born in San Francisco on Feb.24,1955，abandoned by his biological parents from Syria and then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.

　　Mr.Jobs developed an early interest in electronics.He was guided by a neighbor，and electronics hobbyist.He was brash from an early age.As an eighth grader，after discovering that a crucial part was missing from a frequency counter he was assembling，he telephoned William Hewlett，the co­founder of Hewlett­Packard(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 job as a summer intern.

　　Mr.Jobs met Mr.Wozniak while attending the high school.The two took an introductory electronics class there.

　　The spark of their partnership was provided by Mr.Wozniak's mother.Mr.Wozniak had graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of California，when she sent him an article“Secrets of the Little Blue Box”，which detailed an underground hobbyist culture of young men known as phone_phreaks who were illegally exploring the nation's phone system.

　　Mr.Wozniak shared the article with Mr. Jobs，and the two set out to seek an abstruse figure identified in the article as Captain Crunch.The 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 was John Draper，a former electronic technician.Learning that the two young hobbyists were searching for him，Mr.Draper had come to Mr.Wozniak's dormitory room，where the three of them held a meeting.

　　Based on information they collected from Mr.Draper，Mr.Wozniak and Mr.Jobs later joined together on building and selling blue boxes，devices that were widely used for making free and illegal phone calls.They raised a total of $6,000 from the effort.

　　In 1972，Mr.Jobs went to Reed College，but after one semester he left college because it was consuming all of his parents' savings.Leaving school，however，freed his curiosity to follow his interests.Actrally that turned out to be priceless later on.

　　【解題導(dǎo)語】 文章介紹少年喬布斯對(duì)電子興趣的形成與發(fā)展過程。作者重點(diǎn)描寫少年喬布斯是如何對(duì)電子技術(shù)產(chǎn)生濃厚興趣與強(qiáng)烈的好奇心，以及研發(fā)成實(shí)用產(chǎn)品的迫切心情。全世界人都學(xué)喬布斯，都想像他一樣成功。該文章就為當(dāng)代中學(xué)生向喬布斯學(xué)習(xí)點(diǎn)明了方向。

　　5.They all had much influence on the early development of Jobs' electronic interest EXCEPT________.

　　A.Mr.Wozniak's mother B.William Hewlett

　　C.Little Jobs' neighbor D.Mr.Draper

　　解析　該題考查學(xué)生的信息綜合與概括能力。文中介紹了喬布斯少年時(shí)期對(duì)電子興趣的形成與發(fā)展的過程，在這過程中有三個(gè)人對(duì)他影響很大，并給予了較大的幫助，他們分別是：第一個(gè)是在第一段的喬布斯的鄰居(a neighbor)，他是一個(gè)電子愛好者，曾指導(dǎo)過他，算得上他的啟蒙老師;第二個(gè)是惠普公司的創(chuàng)始人Mr.Hewlett，不僅給予解釋而且提供大量的電子零件供他挑選;第三個(gè)是退休電子技工John Draper當(dāng)面指導(dǎo)并參與盜打電話系統(tǒng)的研發(fā)。

　　答案　A

　　6.The underlined word “phone phreaks” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to________.

　　A.the Little Blue Box

　　B.a whistle coming in boxes of cereal

　　C.a figure which is hard to understand

　　D.a person illegally calling at others' expense

　　解析　該題主要考查學(xué)生對(duì)文中生僻詞語意義的推斷。關(guān)鍵信息是phone phreaks后面的定語從句：who were illegally exploring the nation's phone system，即非法盜打別人電話的人。

　　答案　D

　　7.What important part of Mr.Jobs's career developing did Mr.Wozniak's mother play?________.

　　A.suggesting Mr.Jobs and Mr.Wozniak reading“Secrets of the Little Blue Box”

　　B.promoting the direct cooperation between Mr.Jobs and Mr. Wozniak

　　C.recommending Mr.Jobs and Mr.Wozniak to invent a new phone phreaks

　　D.introducing Captain Crunch to help Mr. Jobs and Mr.

　　Wozniak

　　解析　該題考查學(xué)生對(duì)細(xì)節(jié)的推斷能力。Mr.Wozniak(沃茲尼亞克)母親對(duì)喬布斯的人生事業(yè)所起的作用在文章第四段的第一句：The spark of their partnership was provided by Mr.Wozniak's mother;這里的關(guān)鍵詞是spark of their partnership(合作的火花);即，沃茲尼亞克的母親主要的作用是她促成喬布斯與沃茲尼亞克的合作。

　　答案　B

　　8.Why did Mr.Jobs discontinue his college education?

　　A.Because he failed to follow the course and pass all the exams.

　　B.Because he was busy with his own electronic discovery.

　　C.Because he wanted to earn money by himself，not by his parents.

　　D.Because he was absorbed in making free and illegal phone calls.

　　解析　該題考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。關(guān)鍵信息在最后一段的第一句：he left college because it was consuming all of his parents' savings，說明喬布斯離開大學(xué)是因?yàn)樗�不想消費(fèi)他養(yǎng)父母的錢。這一細(xì)節(jié)的考查讓學(xué)生知道喬布斯是多么的尊重父母，是多么有孝心與孝道。

　　答案　C