1 Key to Exercises Opener 1. Mr. Qian Xuesen was a distinguished and world-renowned rocket scientist. Steve Jobs was a famous American entrepreneur, the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. 2. Both of them were dream pursuers and hard workers who finally succeeded in fulfilling their dreams in their own specialized domains. Qian Xuesen became universally acknowledged as the father of China’s space programs, and Steve Jobs came to fame as a creative entrepreneur who revolutionized many products, including personal computers and smartphones. 3. In the early 1950s, Qian, a scientist working in the United States, suffered serious persecution by the US government just because he sympathized with New China. However, he remained firm and overcame lots of difficulties and returned to his motherland in the end. Following that, he devoted himself whole-heartedly to the development of China’s nuclear weapons program. As to Jobs, he also had to overcome a lot of obstacles on his way to success. Once he was forced out of Apple, the company he had co-founded. But years later he came back and became its CEO, and led the world in tablet computing and smartphones. Reading & Interacting I. Understanding the Text 1. Text Organization The Development of the Writer’s Skills as a DJ 2 2. Comprehension Check 2.1 Focu sing on the main ideas Robbie Wilde has been enjoying his life as a DJ. He was born with perfect hearing, but is now completely deaf in his right ear and can hardly hear in his left. He grew up in a musical home environment and started deejaying at age 18. With a strong desire to perfect his skills, he asked a well-known DJ for tutoring. He has been working hard and does not want...
