Exercise 8. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Nowadays, everybody knows Apples and (106)_______ everybody knows that the company
was founded by Steve Jobs, an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is (107)_______ recognized
as a pioneer in the field of microcomputer revolution. He helped design the first Macintosh
computer, (108) ____ a small computer graphics company into Pixar, the company behind Toy Story
and The Monster Inc.
His countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his
(109)_______. Jobs was adopted and raised in San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. In 1972, Jobs
attended Reed College from which he (110)_______ in next to no time. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976
in order to sell Apple I personal computer. At that moment, he might (111)_______ imagine that only
a year later the company tasted impressive victory with Apple II, one of the first highly successful
(112)_______ personal computers. (113)_______, in 1985, following a long power struggle, Jobs was
forced out of Apple. After leaving Apple, Jobs took (114)_______ of its members with him to found
NeXT, a computer development company which was then bought by Apple. The purchase
(115)_______ Jobs to become the company's CEO once again.
Steve Jobs died in 2011 after battling with pancreatic cancer (116)_______ nearly a decade.
Millions first learned of Job's death on a (117)_______ which had been invented by himself.
106. A. most B. almost C. the most D. mostly
107. A. widely B. hardly C. legally D. nationally
108. A. translated B. transferred C. transformed D. transited
109. A. increase B. upbringing C. rising D. grow
110. A. dropped in B. dropped up C. dropped out D. dropped by
111. A. hardly B. truly C. effortlessly D. frequently
112. A. massly-produced B. mass-produced C. massive-produced D. mass-producing
113. A. Generally B. Frankly C. Fortunately D. Unfortunately
114. A. few B. a few C. a little D. little
115. A. was allowing B. has allowed C. allowed D. had allowed
116. A. for B. since C. during D. of
117. A. devil B. deviation C. deviant D. device
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