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An Unwanted Baby, Steve Jobs At 30, Steve Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak. He lef

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问题                      An Unwanted Baby, Steve Jobs
    At 30, Steve Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded 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.【T1】______And you know than the only thing you can do is just relax so you can start breathing again. "
    Steve Jobs sold over $ 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.【T2】______It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
    【T3】______NeXT didn’t do as well as Jobs had dreamed for, but Pix-ar 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.【T4】______Initially appointed as Apple’s adviser, Steve Jobs was name3 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. 【T5】______
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.
【T4】
选项
答案A
解析 联系上下文，上文提及乔布斯说服苹果公司收购他创建的NeXT，下文提及乔布斯因此被任命为临时总裁。因此空格处需要一个过渡句，使上下文的因果逻辑合理。选项A意为“乔布斯在NeXT开发的技术使得苹果重返市场”，符合条件。
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