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Steven Paul Jobs was born in California USA, on Feb. 24, 1955. In 1974 he dropped out of college to work (21)______a video game designer. His initial aim was to save pretty enough money to go to India and experience Buddhism.111]

Back in the US in the autumn of 1974, Jobs went into business, with his high school friend, Stephen Wozniak. Jobs held the opinion (22)______computers would appeal to a broad audience. Although he had long hair and dressed casually, he managed (23)______(obtain) finance for his first marketable computer, the Apple II, in 1977. Apple Inc. (24)______(form) and met with immediate success. Seven years later, Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer in a brilliantly designed demonstration. However, the sales of the first Macs were (25)______(disappoint). This led to such tensions in his company (26)______in 1985 he resigned.

In 1986, Jobs brought Pixar Animation Studios. Over the following decade he built Pixar into a large corporation (27)______, among other achievements, produced the first full-length film to be completely computer-animated, Toy Story, in 1995.

In late 1996, Apple, (28)______(face) with huge financial losses and on the verge of collapse, asked Jobs to come back. He accepted, and quickly engineered an award-winning advertising campaign and urged customers to “think different” and buy Macintoshes. In 1998, he introduced the iMac, an egg-shaped computer that offered high-speed processing at a reasonable price. It was (29)_______ instant success. Steve Jobs had saved his company and, in the process, re-established (30)______ as a master high-technology marketer.

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as; that; to obtain; was formed; disappointing; that; that/which; faced; an; himself;

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