4. unfortunately adv. 不幸地；遗憾地 fortune misfortune fortunate unfortunate
5. relent v. 终于答应；不再拒绝 6. recall v. 记起；回忆起；回想起
7. debut v. 使（新产品）面世；首次广告推广 8. production n. 生产：制造；制作 produce producer productive product
9. possession n. 具有；拥有 10. calculator n. 计算器 11. orchard n. 果园 12. sag v. 减弱；减少
13. competition n. 竞争；角逐（参考Unit 4，Text A相关词） compete competitor competitive
14. successive adj. 连续的；接连的；相继的 succeed
succeed in (doing) sth. successor successful
15. insanely adv. 十分；非常；疯狂地 16. cofound v. 共同建立 co-existence a co-ed school cooperate cohabitation
17. bitter adj. 激烈而不愉快的；充满愤怒与仇恨的 18. recruit v. 吸收（新成员） 19. punch v. 拳打；以拳痛击 20. publicly adv. 公开地
21. heartbreaking adj. 令人心碎的
22. episode n. （人生的）一段经历；（小说的）片段，插曲 23. instant adj. 立即的；立刻的
24. billionaire n. 巨富；亿万富翁 25. immense adj. 极大的；巨大的 immensity
26. convince v. 说服，劝说（某人做某事） convince sb. of sth. / that… convincing
27. foundation n. 基本原理；根据；基础 lay a solid foundation for sth. 28. catalyst n. 催化剂
28. comeback n. 复出；重返；再度受欢迎 29. initially adv. 开始；最初；起初 30. interim n. 暂时的：过渡的 31. profitability n. 盈利能力 profit profitable
32. introduce v. 推行；实施；采用 introduction
introductive / introductory 介绍的，引导的 33. innovation n. 创造；创新；改革 innovate innovative
Phrases and Expressions 1. biological mother 生母
2. meet one's expectations 符合某人的期望 3. drop out 退学；辍学
4. in memory of 作为对…的纪念
5. dwell on 老是想着（尤指最好忘记的事）；一直说…… 6. turn out 原来是；证明是；结果是 II. Text Learning
An Unwanted Baby, Steve Jobs
1 Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks. He may not be perfect but he pulled together the most fantastic act by overcoming Microsoft, the movie industry and the music business. Jobs followed his dream and led a revolution in the computing world.
2 Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco,
California. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson and decided to put him up for adoption. (1)Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: Clara didn't graduate from college and Paul only attended high school. When she found out that both his future parents had never graduated from college, she refused to sign
the adoption papers. She only relented a few months later and agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they would send him to college. 本部分重点及难点：
1. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated.
当谓语动词是\一坚持，二命令，三建议，四要求\时，即insist, order,
command, advise, suggest, propose, demand, request, require, ask以及desire, recommend, prefer, decide, urge等词时，从句谓语用should+动词原形。
We suggest that he be present at the meeting in time. His painful expression suggested that he was ill at ease. 请认真答题，答题结果将记入知识点测评的成绩！
【单选题】17. From the anxious expression on his face, we can clearly see his strong desire that his mother ______ from the major illness soon.
A． recovers B． recover C． will recover D． has recovered 【答案】B
【解析】本题考查虚拟语气。desire后的从句用虚拟语气，谓语动词为\hould+动词原形\，should通常省略。本句的意思是\从他脸上焦急的表情，我们可以很清楚地看到他希望母亲从这场大病中快速痊愈的强烈愿望。\ 【知识点】虚拟语气
3 Steve Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive. Recalling his time there he said, \idn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cents deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.\
4 At 20, Steve Jobs and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Later that year, they debuted the Apple I and a local store offered to buy 50 machines. To finance the
production, they had to sell their most expensive possessions. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Steve Jobs named their company Apple, in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.
5 By 1982, however, his company sales sagged in the face of
competition from IBM's new PC. (2)Not wanting to dwell on successive failures, they worked on a new machine called the Macintosh. By 1986, the Mac, which Steve Jobs promised to be \anely great,\was a huge success. After 10 years, starting from 2 kids working in a garage, Apple computer had grown into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
6 At 30, Steve Jobs, however, was fired from the company he
cofounded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with Apple's CEO John Sculley, whom Jobs had recruited from Pepsi Cola. When Steve Jobs heard of the message he said, \You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out of you and you cannot breathe. (3)The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again.\ 本部分重点及难点：
2. Not wanting to dwell on successive failures, they worked on a new machine called the Macintosh.
非谓语动词的否定形式为：not+非谓语动词（具体参考Unit 7, Text A） dwell on：详述；老想着
Don't always dwell on the past, look forward. He's dwelling on his story once again.
3. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. \+比较级，the+比较级\意为\越……就越……\
The farther a planet is from the earth, the smaller it looks/appears/seems.
试译：你锻炼越多，就越不大可能感冒。
你越不可能感冒：You are less likely to catch a cold.
The more exercise you take, the less likely you are to catch a cold. You'll have less chance / few chances of catching a cold.
The more exercise you take, the less chance / the fewer chances you'll have of catching a cold.
7 Steve Jobs sold over $20 million of his Apple stock, spent days bicycling along the beach, feeling sad and lost, toured Paris, and journeyed on to Italy. Recalling this publicly heartbreaking episode, Jobs said, \4)I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. (5)The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.\
8 During the next five years he started two companies - NeXT and
Pixar. NeXT didn't do as well as Jobs had dreamed for, but Pixar was a success story. Jobs became an instant billionaire. Meanwhile, his old company Apple was under immense pressure from its rival Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses.
9 In December 1996, Steve Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next-generation Mac OS. The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple's comeback. (6)Initially appointed as Apple's adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apple's interim CEO in 1997. 本部分重点及难点：
4. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. (1) turn out 到头来，结果是，竟然是
It turned out the man standing beside me was a pickpocket. He turned out to be one of my former classmates. (2) happen to sb. 联想：become of sb.
(3) 译文：我当时并没有意识到，但结果表明，被苹果公司开除，是我遇到的最好的事情。
5. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. 对一切都不确定，从头再来的轻松取代了成功带来的压力。
句子的主干是The heaviness was replaced by the lightness.
6. Initially appointed as Apple's adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apple's interim（过渡的，临时的）CEO in 1997.
appointed as Apple's adviser过去分词作状语。过分表示被动，再如： Seen from here, the valley is very beautiful.
10 (7)He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it was contributing new and innovative technologies to the
computer world. (8)Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations. 本部分重点及难点：
7. He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it was contributing new and innovative technologies to the computer world.
(1) make sth.+adj.
make the room clean / warm
(2) where it was contributing ….定语从句，修饰a place
8. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.
under one's leadership
类似的结构还有：under one's supervision（监督，管理） / guidance / influence
注意under的用法：under way / treatment / discussion / investigation under arrest / threat
under one's guidance / leadership 注意区分：guidance, guide
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【单选题】18. The tourists had a very pleasant sight-seeing tour under the ______ of the experienced ______. A． guidance, guide B． guidance, guidance C． guide, guide D． guide, guidance 【答案】A
【解析】本题考查%under+名词\及\idance和guide的区别\。under one's guidance意为\在某人的指导下，在某人的引导下\。注意两个名词的区别：guidance指导，引导，辅导；guide向导，导游。 【知识点】%under+名词\及\idance和guide的区别\