Walter Isaacson's new biography(传记)of Steve Jobs is a very successful book of the year, but Isaacson is confused that so many journalists writing about the book have hold the anecdotes(轶事)about Jobs behaving like a monster to the people around him, without setting those anecdotes against the larger picture of everything that Jobs accomplished in his life.
"You have to judge people by the outcome," says Isaacson, the former editor of Time magazine who has written bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. "In the end, Steve Jobs had four loving children who were all intensely loyal to him and a wife who was his best friend for 20 years. At work he ends up with a loyal professional team of A players at Apple who swear by him and stay there, as opposed to other companies that are always losing good talent. In the end he was an inspiring person. He inspired loyalty and real love. So you judge him by that."
Jobs died on October 5 at the age of 56 after battling cancer for many years. Isaacson, who spent two years working on the book, has fond memories of dinners with the Jobs family in their home in Palo Alto, Calif., sitting around a big wooden table in the kitchen beside a brick pizza oven. The house where Jobs lived with his wife, Laurene, and their children has no hedges or high walls, no long driveway. Out back is a vegetable and flower garden with beehives from which the family collects their own honey. "It was a house that you would not turn your head to look at as you go down the street. It was built in the 1930s and had no lavish spaces, no McMansion qualities. It was just a normal Palo Alto neighborhood home," Isaacson says.
单选题 Which issue confuses Isaacson after the publication of the biography of Steve Jobs?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由题干中的confuses,biography ofSteve Jobs定位到第一段。第一段指出WalterIsaacson今年出版了乔布斯的传记,但是Isaacson发现很多记者评论该书时讲述了太多关于乔布斯的轶事,对周围的人而言乔布斯像是个怪人,由此可知D)为该句的同义转述。
单选题 Compared with those companies always losing talent, what about Apple?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】由题于中的losing talent定位到第二段第三句。该句指出,最终乔布斯为苹果创造了一个忠诚的专业团队,他们极其信赖乔布斯并一直待在公司,与其相反的是其他公司却在不断地流失人才,由此可知A)为正确答案。
单选题 Why did Isaacson say Jobs was an inspiring person?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的an inspiring person定位到第二段倒数第二句。本段倒数第二、三句提到,乔布斯是一个会鼓舞人的人,他激起了人们的忠诚和真爱,由此判断B)正确。
单选题 What was Isaacson's fond memories of dinners with the Jobs family?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的fond memories of dinnerswith the Jobs定位到第三段第二句。该句描述了Isaacson与乔布斯一家人围坐在一张大木桌旁共进晚餐的美好记忆,由此可知B)正确。
单选题 What did Isaacson think about Jobs' house?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由题手中的Isaacson,Jobs’house定位到第三段最后三句。文中提及Isaacson说乔布斯的房子是那种走在街上你都不会回头看一眼的类型,它建于20世纪30年代,没有什么奢华的空间,也没有大厦般的质感,它只是帕罗奥图普通的邻家房舍,C)为原文的同义转述。