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Steve Jobs speech at Stanford University in 2005 (Adapted1)

The following reading exercise is based on a speech delivered by Steve

Jobs at Stanford University in 2005. He was the previous CEO (Chief
Executive Officer - President) of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation
Studios. Read the text and answer the questions below.
I am honored to be with you today at one of the finest universities in the world.
I never graduated from college; this is the closest I have ever gotten to a
college graduation. Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life (Jobs,
2005).

Steve Jobs shared his story about college:

He left college in the first semester. Why? Well, his biological mother was a
young, single college student, and she decided to put him up for adoption, so
everything was organized and he was going to be adopted by a lawyer and his
wife. However, when he was born, they decided that they really wanted a girl. So
his parents got a call asking: -"We have a baby boy; do you want him? they said:
-"Of course! However, they were not graduate students. When his biological
mother discovered that his adoptive mother had never graduated from college and
that his adoptive father had never graduated from high school, she didnt want to
sign the adoption papers; she signed just when his parents promised that he would
go to college one day.
Consequently, 17 years later, Steve went to college; he chose a very expensive
college, and all of his parents' money was spent on his college expenses. He had
no idea what he wanted to do with his life or how college was going to help him.
So he left college trusting that it was going to be for the best. He was really scared
at the time, but then, he thought it was one of the best decisions he had made. As
a result, Jobs started taking those subjects that were interesting for him. It wasn't
easy. He didn't have a room, so he slept on the floor in his friends' rooms. Jobs
collected coke bottles for 5 (five cents) to get money to buy food. Jobs used to
walk 11 kilometers every Sunday night to get one good meal a week.
Reed College (thats the name of the university) offered, perhaps, the
best calligraphy class in the United States. Every poster in the campus
was beautifully handwritten. Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class to learn
 about calligraphy styles. He asserts it was beautiful, historical, and artistic
in a way that science can't capture, he found it fascinating.
He affirmed nothing of this had an immediate
practical application in his life. But ten years later,
when they designed the first Macintosh
computer, everything made sense: it was the first
computer with beautiful typography. Then, if he
had never taken that calligraphy course in
college, the Mac computer wouldn't have multiple
typography styles. Then, Windows copied the
Mac and, now, all computers have different
calligraphed styles. When he was in college, it
was impossible to understand all this.
Then again, you might not understand your present now, but you will probably
understand it later, you will connect your present to your future one day; you have
to trust in something: your God, life, or karma, whatever. I have always believed
in this, and it has made all the difference in my life.
[1] The original text has been adapted for didactic purposes, last
accessed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc (July 2013)
For questions 1 to 12, answer True/False according to Steve Jobs' speech.
Steve Jobs never graduated from college.

Pregunta 2
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

According to the text, Steve Jobs biological mother wanted him to go to college.

Pregunta 3
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs had chosen an expensive college.

Pregunta 4
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

When Steve Jobs abandoned his regular classes, he was really scared.

Pregunta 5
3 de 3 puntos
 Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.
Steve Jobs had a room at college.

Pregunta 6
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs used to collect books to get money.

Pregunta 7
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs thought people might not understand present events, but they will
understand them in the future.

Pregunta 8
0 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs wasn't bored in his regular classes at the university.

Pregunta 9
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs studied a topography class at college.

Pregunta 10
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs experience in college influenced his creations.

Pregunta 11
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs graduated as an industrial engineer.

Pregunta 12
3 de 3 puntos

Answer True/False according to Steve's Jobs speech.

Steve Jobs was an adopted child.

Pregunta 13
0 de 4 puntos
 Read and complete the second part of Steve Jobs speech. Fill in the blanks by
choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.

Steve Jobs' story about love and loss.

He said "I was lucky!" as he found what he loved to do early in life. Jobs and his
friend, Woz, started Apple in Steves parents garage when he was 20. They worked
hard, and, in 10 years, Apple ____________ and become a $2 billion company with
over 4000 employees.

1. Choose the correct form to complete the paragraph.

Pregunta 14
4 de 4 puntos

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.
Complete the paragraph by choosing the correct option from the ones provided
below.

They had just completed the Macintosh a year earlier. Everything was going perfect, and
then Jobs got fired, so he didnt have a job at Apple anymore. How can you get fired from a
company you started? He asks. Well, Apple had grown, so they had hired someone who he
thought was very talented and for the first year things went well. But then, their visions were
different and, eventually, they _____ problems and all of the directors agreed with that new
person.

Pregunta 15
4 de 4 puntos

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.
So, at the age of 30 Jobs was out of his own company. Therefore, what had been
the focus of his life was gone, it _____ devastating for him.

Pregunta 16
4 de 4 puntos

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.
Jobs felt that he had disappointed everybody, that he was a public failure, a fiasco,
and he ______________ the Silicon valley. But he realized he still loved what he
did. He had been rejected, but he remembered how he was in love with his work.
Therefore, he decided to start once again.

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 Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.
He said: - getting kicked out from Apple was the best thing that
__________________ to him. Fame and success were replaced by the liberty of
beginning again. These difficult moments took him to one of the most creative
periods of his life.

Pregunta 18
4 de 4 puntos

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct option from the ones provided below.
During five years, he started a company named NeXT; another one named Pixar, and
fell in love with his wife. Pixar created Toy Story, the worlds first computer
animated feature film. Then, Apple bought NeXT, so he ______________ to Apple,
and the technology they had developed at NeXT was vital for Apple's rebirth. He
and his wife had a wonderful family together.

Pregunta 19
4 de 4 puntos

He asserts it______ horrible medicine, but the patient needed it. Jobs shares from
his experience that the only thing that kept him going was that he loved what he did.
According to him: one must find what you love. And that is true for your work and
your lovers.

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Your work __________________________ a large part of your life, and the only
way to be satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you
_________________ it yet, just continue looking, don't stop.

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As it works with all matters of the heart, you _______________ when you find it.

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 And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better through time.
Remember: just keep looking until you _____ it and don't stop.

Pregunta 24
20 de 20 puntos

Listen to the last part of Steve Jobs speech and organize the 10 paragraphs
accordingly. Then, answer the questions.
His third story is about death