Biological mother (i)Causing destruction

Pop out (ii) Something becomes clear and understandable to

the person
Typography (iii) Beautiful writing with a special pen or brush

Calligraphy (iv) The mother who gave birth to a child

Karma (v) The belief that your actions in life will affect your
future life
Devastating (vi) Come out suddenly

Something dawns on somebody (viii) the design of the writing in

a piece of printing or on a computer screen
Exercises (The stories of Steve Job)

I. Match the following vocabularies.

II. Listen to the story and decide these sentences are whether true or false.

1. Jobs’ biological mother was not married at the time when Job was born. (1:20)
   True    False

2. Job could have been adopted by a lawyer but the lawyer didn’t want a boy. (1:35)
   True    False

3. To match his achievements in the IT industry, Steve Jobs acquired a university degree for
himself. (0:32)
   True    False

4. To match his achievements in the IT industry, Steve Jobs acquired a university degree for
himself. (0:32)
   True    False

5. Steve Job was fired from Apple because he didn’t get along well with a senior staff he
himself had employed.(6:28)
   True    False

6. When Steve Jobs was fired from Apple Inc, he was so frustrated that he decided to leave
the IT business. (7:13)
   True    False

7. According to the story, Steve Jobs was bound to die from pancreatic cancer. (11:26)
   True    False