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第四部分：填句補文(第26-30題。每題2分，其10分)下面的短文有5處空白。短文后有6個句子。其中5個取自短文，請根據短文內容將其分別放回原有位置。以恢復文章原貌。

An Unwanted Baby Steve Jobs

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. _____26_____ And you know than the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again. "

Steve Jobs sold ever $ 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 "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. _____27_____ It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

_____28_____ 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.

In December 1996, Steve Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next-generation Mac OS._____29_____ Initially appointed as Apple’s adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apple’s interim CEO in 1997.

He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it was contributing new and innovative technologies to the computer world. _____30_____

26.請在第_____26_____處填上正確答案。

A.The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback.

B.The harder you try to breathe the more you cannot breathe.

C.During the next five years he started two companies—NeXT and Pixar.

D.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything.

E.Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks.

F.Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.

27.請在第_____27_____處填上正確答案。

A.The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback.

B.The harder you try to breathe the more you cannot breathe.

C.During the next five years he started two companies—NeXT and Pixar.

D.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything.

E.Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks.

F.Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.

28.請在第_____28_____處填上正確答案。

A.The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback.

B.The harder you try to breathe the more you cannot breathe.

C.During the next five years he started two companies—NeXT and Pixar.

D.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything.

E.Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks.

F.Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.

29.請在第_____29_____處填上正確答案。

A.The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback.

B.The harder you try to breathe the more you cannot breathe.

C.During the next five years he started two companies—NeXT and Pixar.

D.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything.

E.Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks.

F.Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.

30.請在第_____30_____處填上正確答案。

A.The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback.

B.The harder you try to breathe the more you cannot breathe.

C.During the next five years he started two companies—NeXT and Pixar.

D.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again less sure about everything.

E.Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks.

F.Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations.