V. 閱讀測驗: 10% (56~60) Withthe death of SteveJobsearly this October, the world has lost one of perhaps

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V. 閱讀測驗: 10% (56~60) Withthe death of SteveJobsearly this October, the world has lost one of perhaps the greatestinnovatorsof the last hundred years. At Apple,the company he co-founded with SteveWozniak,Jobs first introduced the world to the Macintoshpersonal computerand then later to several revolutionary“iProducts.” Itall began in California in 1955, when Steve Jobs was born to twograduatestudents, who puthim upfor adoption. Hewas adoptedby Paul and Clara Jobs, who raised him as their own son. [!--empirenews.page--]Jobs was a good student,and he enrolledat ReedCollege. Yet, he droppedout afteronly one semester there, though he did remainon campus, droppingin onclasses he was interested in. In1976, Job started Apple Computers with his friend Wozniak. The company foundsuccess in 1984 with the Macintosh computer, but Jobs was eventuallypushedout ofthe company he had founded. Unemployed,Jobs regroupedand started a new company called NeXT. Hethen went on to acquire[!--empirenews.page--]the GraphicsGroup,which would later be renamed Pixar. Inthe mid-90s, Jobs was approachedto return to Apple. Heeventually became the CEOof the company, and he was primarilyresponsible forApple’s remarkablegrowth and success inthe years that followed. This streakof hit productsincluded the iPod,the iTunesStore, the iPhone,and the iPad.At the time of his death, Apple was one of the most valuablecompanies in America, and Jobs’individualnet worth wasestimated to be $7 billion. Jobshad actually [!--empirenews.page--]steppeddown asCEO of Apple shortly before his death, and news of his passingarrived after the launch of Apple’s new iPhone 4S, promptingsome to suggest thatthis had been an iPhone “4 Steve.” An outpouringof griefand sympathyfollowed, with theU.S. president Barack Obama stating, “There may be nogreater tributeto Steve’ssuccess than the fact that much of the world learnedof hispassing on a devicehe invented.” In2005, Jobs gave a graduation speech at StanfordUniversity,remindingpeople to live each day asif it might their last.He also encouraged them to “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Without adoubt, Jobs changed the world, and especially the way that people useand interactwith [!--empirenews.page--]technology.

56. According to the passage, which of the following is not a product of Apple?
(A) the Macintosh computer
(B) Windows 7
(C) the iPhone 4S
(D) the iTunes Stores

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統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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