2. 外语
  3. Among American innovators, nobody comes close to the defining legacy of Steve Jobs. It is commonly【C1】______. He was not an Edis

Among American innovators, nobody comes close to the defining legacy of Steve Jobs. It is commonly【C1】______. He was not an Edis

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问题     Among American innovators, nobody comes close to the defining legacy of Steve Jobs. It is commonly【C1】______. He was not an Edison. He was not equipped to make a【C2】______ in pure technology 【C3】______circuits and frequencies. That is not what makes Apple unique. His gift to humanity was an【C4】______ representative of form and function. He had the【C5】______ of a predictor. He took the technology【C6】______it was and imposed on it his unique taste, which millions joyously【C7】______as their own.
    The iPhone【C8】______ little to the man routinely described as the father of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell went off【C9】______ a prolonged honeymoon once he’d proved that sound waves could be【C10】______into wavelike electric current. He did nothing more after the marvelous moment on the evening of March, 10, 1876, when his young assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell’s voice come down the【C11】______. " Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you! " but as Watson later【C12】______, the Bell phone was calculated【C13】______ to develop the voice and lung than to enable conversation. The moment of folklore overshadows what must follow if the brain wave【C14】______ the marketplace. It was【C15】______ to Thomas Edison and his associate Charles Batchelor to make the Bell phone【C16】______ by inventing a carbon-button transmitter for the rival Western Union. But then the world had to wait for someone to tackle the countless 【C17】______ to a national long-distance system. Theodore Vail【C18】______ Western Union and Bell, pooled patents, and founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. , the company Jobs chose for his launch partner in 2007. And Apple’s【C19】______ depend on the microchip,【C20】______origins lie in the transistor invented in 1947 at the Bell labs founded by Vail.
【C15】
选项 A、turned
B、passed
C、given
D、left
答案D
解析 固定搭配题。句意为：最终是爱迪生和他的同事通过为竞争对手西部联合电报公司发明碳键型传输设备而使得贝尔所发明的电话能够被人们听见。本题考查固定表达it is left to sb．to do sth．“把某事留给某人去做”，故答案为[D]。其他三个选项均不构成固定搭配，故排除。
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