Steve Jobs made technology _________. The co-founder of Apple died at the age of fifty-six. He had _________ for years against cancer. Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said “If you actually look at a tech leader, they’re really happy _________ they have one hit in their life. Steve Jobs has the Apple Ⅱ, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar.”

Steve Jobs was a college dropout. He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant. They supported his early _________ in electronics.

He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer-now just called Apple-in 1976. They stayed at the company until 1985, _________ Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left the company _________ a dispute (分歧) with the chief executive.

Steve Jobs then _________ his own company, called NeXT Computer. He rejoined Apple in 1997 after it bought NeXT. He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most _________ companies in the world today.

Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, _________ his longtime friend as a “great visionary and leader” and a “marketing genius”.

The former president Obama said in a statement, “By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he __________ the spirit of American ingenuity (独创性). By making computers __________ and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only __________, but intuitive and fun.”

David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American __________. “The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really __________. He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the Great of all time.” David Carroll said.

Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple’s chief executive in August because of his health. He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that __________ limited excitement.

Michael Johnson, a teacher at Davis High School in California, gave each of his students $25. He asked them to _______ other people with the money. The assignment (任务) was not _______, but he _______ expected them to do it.

Michael had one _______: the student had to write a paper answering _______ they used the money, how it affected the _______ and how it affected the student. He said that he would _______ the reports and read them aloud at the end of the term.

The semester came and went. Of the 64 students, only three _______ the assignment. The teacher was disappointed.

But some teenagers were not _______ by the students' behavior.

"I'm not surprised," said Ashley Reeves, 16. "It wasn't graded or anything, ________ most students probably thought it would just ________ their time."

Reeves said that if she had been given the money, she might have acted ________.

I might have spent the money on ________, she said. "It's ________ for our own needs to come first."

Other teens such as Lindsey Freeland, a student at Davis High School had a(n) ________ opinion on the matter.

"I'm embarrassed by the ________, "she wrote. "If I were given this opportunity, I would have taken it ________ a challenge and used the ________ to help the community."

Nieshia Smith completed Johnson's assignment. She gave her $25 to the Make A Wish Foundation (基金会). Nieshia said her peers had ________ her.

"Teenagers sit down and watch TV for hours, but they can't ________ a couple of minutes helping someone else!" she said.

Bradley’s Bicycle

When our son Bradley was ten, the new bicycle he had received earlier that year was missing. Having a bike was a big deal to our children. They spent hours and hours on their bikes, _______ up and down the foot path, and at the front of the house. We also rode as a _______ at holidays, when all the members enjoyed staying together. Bicycling was a great way to get the kids out of the house and into the fresh air _______ spending any money.

Bradley discovered that his bicycle had been _______ from our backyard when he had his sister go outside for a morning ride. He couldn’t _______ that someone would do this. _______, none of the other bicycles were touched and nothing else was missing.

Bradley painted a sign on a large piece of cardboard, _______ for the bicycle to be returned, and _______ it to the letterbox. The following morning, when I went out to collect the mail, I found a white _______ with the magical words, “Buy yourself a new bike.” It took me a little while to ________ what it was inside it. It was a $100 banknote.

We were very ________ that someone had the heart to do this. We’ve never able to thank the person but we ________ that it might have been one of our wonderful neighbors. Bradley painted a big “Thank you” on the sign and we ________ it outside for a couple of weeks afterwards ________ it was someone who drove down our street.

Bradley was able to own a new bicycle. As the years went on, bicycles became bigger and more expensive but remained just as ________ for those family bicycle rides. Now the kids are ________ and cars have replaced their bicycles. Bradley is twenty-five this year. Sometimes I ________ the days when receiving a bicycle was the best thing in the world to them.

All these years later we are still grateful to that incredibly kind ________. A young boy’s sorrow turned to joy when he got his ________. We were a young family with three little children and it meant a lot to us. We still talk about it and, even now, ________ who actually gave us the help.