Read the text below and for each numbered gap 1-20 circle the letter (A, B, C or D) of

the word or phrase that best suits each space.

STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs 1. A. carried B. conducted
C. conveyed D. attended over two years – as well as interviews with more than a
hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues – this book
chronicles the roller-coaster life and unusually intense 2. A. individual B. identity
C. personality D. characteristic of a creative businessman whose passion for
perfection and relentless 3. A. drive B. motif C. force D. power revolutionized six
industries: personal computers, 4. A. animated B. animate C. live D. alive movies,
music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing.
At a time when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies,
Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of 5. A. discovery B. revelation C. inventiveness
D. breakthrough and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value
in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a
company where 6. A. jumps B. hops C. skips D. leaps of the imagination were
combined with remarkable 7. A. feats B. performances C. actions D. activities of
engineering.
Although Jobs 8. A. integrated B. shared C. cooperated D. incorporated with
this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it
before it was published. He put nothing 9. A. over B. off C. out D. to limits and
10. A. nonetheless B. notwithstanding C. otherwise D. instead encouraged the
people he knew to speak honestly. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud 11. A. of
B. with C. over D. in , such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the
way I 12. A. handed B. handled C. dealt D. coped that," he said. "But I don't have
any 13. A. corpses B. bodies C. skeletons D. dead men in my closet that can't be
allowed out."
Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally, about the people he worked with and
competed against. 14. A. Alike B. Like C. Likewise D. Likely , his friends, foes and
colleagues provide a truthful 15. A. view B. sight C. vision D. look of the passions,
demons, perfectionism, desires, artistry, devilry and obsession for control that shaped
his 16. A. style B. approach C. way D. manner to business and the innovative
products that 17. A. occurred B. happened C. arose D. resulted .
Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and
products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software 18. A. tended
B. bound C. inclined D. disposed to be. His extraordinary tale, told 19. A. across
B. along C. into D. through this masterly biography, is 20. A. full B. fulfilled
C. filled D. comprised with lessons about innovation, character, values and
leadership.