1、Passage 1主题关于苹果公司创始人乔布斯体裁记叙文生词3The designer of the Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with either his schoolmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, which few peo
2、ple saw the value of. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out(退学) halfway.Steve Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months and then he set out to tour India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a
3、 change in life for the better.After he returned from India, he began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975,Steve Jobs set about making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple Computer in his bedroom and built it in his garage(车库).He gave the
4、 name “Apple”because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent on an orchard(果园) in Oregon.His Apple Computer was so successful that Steve Jobs soon became worldwide famous. But unluckily, he died of illness in 2011.Passage 2主题关于网球运动员李娜的情况体裁记叙文生词5About Li NaBirthday:February 26,1982Birthplace:
5、Wuhan,HubeiHeight:172cmWeight:65kg“My dream has come true.I have always wanted to be a Grand Slam(大满贯) champion.”These are the words of Chinese tennis player Li Na after she became the first Asian woman to win a Grand Slam final in the French Open on June 4,2011.Miss Li has a tattoo (文身).She has dye
6、d her hair many different colours.And,at the 2008 Beijing Olympics,she told her fans to “shut up” when they got too noisy in their support.Li Na was born in Wuhan. She started to play tennis at the age of 6.She once recalled:“As a child, I felt sad because every day I had to wake up early to practic
7、e.After school I had to practice more.I didnt have time to play.”Luckily,the strong girl didnt give up,thus making history for Chinese tennis time after time.Now the new champion is already thinking about winning another Grand Slam title.“When you have one title,surely you will think about another,”
8、she says,not hiding her ambition (雄心).“Chinese people are so lacking (缺乏的) in confidence on the tennis court.If there is a person like me who can prove we Chinese can do it,the other young players in China will feel the same,”she said.In October,2012,Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Lite
9、rature(诺贝尔文学奖).He has become the first Chinese writer to receive this award.Mo Yan was born in February,1955.His parents were farmers.When he was twelve,he left school to work,first on a farm,later in a factory.In 1976,he became a soldier and began to write.The writers real name is Guan Moye.He chos
10、e his pen name,“Mo Yan”,while writing his first novel.It means “Dont speak.”The writer thought talking too much could bring trouble,so he hoped the pen name could remind himself not to speak his mind while in public.Mo Yan is a leading writer of modern Chinese novels.His works are mostly about the c
11、ountry life.He often writes about the area where he grew upGaomi,Shandong.He talks about what happened in his hometown even before he was born.Mo Yans 1986 novel Red Sorghum is an example.It is also Mos most famous book in the English-speaking world.It tells a story that happened in his hometown in
12、the 1930s.Many people got to know Mo Yan when the book was made into a successful film by director Zhang Yimou in 1987.In 2006,Mo Yans novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out came out and it quickly got popular.Mo Yans latest novel,Frog,is about a rural doctors experience.Passage 3Beethoven (贝多芬) wa
13、s born in a small city near the Rhine in Germany.His father always drank and his mother was a maid (女仆).They lived a poor life.Beethoven was a talented (有天赋的) child in music.People at that time thought he was as clever as Mozart.His father wanted to make money from his talent,so he told him to pract
14、ice and play all the time.If he didnt do that,his father would be angry with him and beat him.Beethoven was very short and ugly.He couldnt hear well from the age of 22 and later he heard nothing,but all these unhappy things didnt make him dislike music.He began to write sonatas (奏鸣曲) at 12,and later he became a great musician.His life was so short that he didnt leave many works.But people think he was one of the best musicians in the world.
