I am honored to be with you today at one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.

I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released(發(fā)行) our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out(吵翻). When we did, our Board of Directors(董事會(huì)) sided with him(站在……一邊). So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was depressing.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance(復(fù)興). And Laurence and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

67. This passage is probably taken from ______.         .

A. a lecture given by a professor    

B. a speech given to some college students

C. a talk given at a conference                            

D. a book dealing with a person's own experience

68. Which of the following is the correct order of events that happened to the speaker?

a. He released the Macintosh.                             

b. He got fired from Apple.

c. He returned to Apple.

d. He fell in love with the woman who was to become his wife.

e. He started another two companies.

A. b-c-a-d-e                    B. a-b-c-d-e          

C. b-e-a-d-c                    D. a-b-e-d-c

69. The underlined word “diverge” in the second paragraph probably means“______”.

A. differ              B. change             C. accomplish      D. fall

70. What is the point the speaker wants to make in the passage?

A. Never be afraid of failures.                B. Be willing to change yourself.

C. Be sure to find what you love to do.   D. Stick to your own vision.

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