Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Steven Paul Jobs was born in California USA, on Feb.24, 1955. In 1974 he dropped out of college to work 9 a video game designer. His initial aim was to save pretty enough money to go to India and experience Buddhism.
Back in the US in the autumn of 1974, Jobs went into business, with his high school friend, Stephen Wozniak. Jobs held the opinion 10 computers would appeal to broad audience. Although he had long hair and dressed casually, he managed to obtain finance for his first marketable computer, the Apple II. In 1976, Apple Inc. 11 (form) and met with immediate success.
Seven years later, Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer in a brilliantly designed demonstration. However, the sales of the first Macs were disappointing. He resigned in 1985 in case further tensions were created in his company.
In 1986, Jobs brought Pixar Animation Studios. Over the following decade he expanded Pixar into a large corporation 12 , among other achievements, produced the first full – length film to be completely computer animated, Toy Story, in 1995.
In late 1996, Apple, 13 (face) with huge financial losses and on the verge of collapse, asked Jobs to come back. He accepted, and quickly engineered an award-winning advertising campaign and urged customers to “think different” and buy Macintoshes. In 1998, he introduced the iMac, an egg-shaped computer that offered high-speed processing at a reasonable price. It was an instant success. Steve Jobs had saved his company and, in the process, re-established 14 as a high-technology marketer.