Номер 3, страница 89, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Часть 2. Unit 4. The Whole World Knows Them. Step 8. Consolidation and Extension - номер 3, страница 89.

Условие.

3 A. Look at the picture. Do you know this man? What do you know about him?

Steve Jobs (1955–2011), an American businessman, one of the founders of Apple Inc¹. Company, is also known as Father of the Digital Revolution.

He was born in San Francisco to two university students who were unmarried then and couldn't support their baby. The boy was adopted² at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs who became loving and caring parents for Steve. Paul taught him some elementary electronics and how to work with his hands. Clara taught Steve to read before he went to school.

Though Steve often found school boring, he was known as a gifted student. While in high school¹, he met some people who shared his interests in electronics. One of them was Stephen Wozniak. In 1976 Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business. They named it “Apple Computer Company” in remembrance of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples. Everyone agrees that it was Steve’s character and intellect that helped to make the company what it was. He was certainly the heart and soul² of the company and its public face.

Steve was responsible for designing [dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ] new products, marketing and finding the best possible people for the company. Under his leadership the company had the greatest success in business history and developed such world-famous products as iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad and many others.

Steve Jobs was a perfectionist. Nothing was ever “good enough” for him – it had to be perfect. It seemed that he worked 24 hours a day. This devotion to work and great interest in it helped him to become a real winner and achieve great results working together with his team.

Steve loved songs by Bob Dylan and was a great fan of The Beatles. This is what he once said about them, “They were four guys who... balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.” He said that from that point of view The Beatles were a model for him.

B. The words that are marked in the text may be new to you. Did you understand their meanings? What helped you to understand the words: a) the way they look and sound, b) the context in which they are used, c) both?

C. Complete these statements.

1) Steve Jobs was ... .

a) the head of a big company

b) a famous scientist

c) not the only founder of a big company

2) Steve Jobs’ interests lay in ... .

a) producing hi-tech equipment

b) improving the old models of computers

c) finding new markets for the company’s mobile phones

3) Steve Jobs was a ... .

a) good friend

b) good public speaker

c) hard worker

4) The word “perfectionist” means a ... .

a) perfect personality

b) person trying to achieve the best results

c) person who always wins

5) Steve Jobs believed in ... .

a) a great role of a leader

b) being a winner

c) joining with other people in doing work

Решение.

Решение 2.

Посмотрите на картинку. Вы знаете этого человека? Что вы о нем знаете?

Ответ:

Yes, I know this man. This is Steve Jobs. I know that he was one of the founders of Apple. He was a very hardworking person and a perfectionist. He believed that great things are done by a team of people. (Да, я знаю этого человека. Это Стив Джобс. Я знаю, что он был одним из основателей компании Apple. Он был очень трудолюбивым человеком и перфекционистом. Он верил, что великие дела делаются командой людей.)

Слова, выделенные в тексте, могут быть для вас новыми. Вы поняли их значения? Что помогло вам понять слова: а) то, как они выглядят и звучат, б) контекст, в котором они используются, в) и то, и другое?

Ответ:

I think both the context and the way words look helped me to understand their meaning. The sentences around the new words gave clues about what they meant. (Я думаю, что и контекст, и то, как выглядят слова, помогли мне понять их значение. Предложения вокруг новых слов давали подсказки о том, что они означают.)

Завершите эти утверждения.

Ответ:

1) Steve Jobs was ...

c) not the only founder of a big company (не единственным основателем большой компании)

2) Steve Jobs' interests lay in ...

a) producing hi-tech equipment (производства высокотехнологичного оборудования)

3) Steve Jobs was a ...

c) hard worker (трудоголик)

4) The word “perfectionist” means a ...

b) person trying to achieve the best results (человек, стремящийся достичь наилучших результатов)

5) Steve Jobs believed in ...

c) joining with other people in doing work (объединение с другими людьми для выполнения работы)