四、信息还原
阅读下面的短文,从其后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,有两项是多余的。
"Three apples" changed the world. The first one seduced(诱骗) Eve. The second one awakened Newton. 1 Here are some famous words from Steve Jobs to share.
On character: I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. 2
On good design: That's been one of my mottos—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
On his outlook: 3 Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
On your working life: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. 4 If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
On the importance of death: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. 5 No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
A. It's very character-building.
B. The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs.
C. This is not a one-man show.
D. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
E. And yet death is the destination we all share.
F. It's really hard to design products by focusing on groups.
G. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
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1. B
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1. 第一个空，根据上文提到“Three apples”中的前两个苹果分别诱骗了夏娃和唤醒了牛顿，接下来应该是第三个苹果的相关内容。选项B“The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs.”直接指出了第三个苹果与史蒂夫·乔布斯有关，符合上下文逻辑。
2. 第二个空，上文提到乔布斯在一年内损失了2.5亿美元，下文应该是对这一事件的看法或感受。选项A“It's very character-building.”表示“这很锻炼性格”，与上文提到的损失相呼应，表达了乔布斯对此的看法。
3. 第三个空，根据下文“Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.”可知，乔布斯重视的是做了什么精彩的事情，而不是财富或地位。选项G“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.”表达了相似的观点，即成为墓地里最富有的人对他来说并不重要。
4. 第四个空，上文提到“the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work”，下文应该是对如何做到伟大工作的进一步说明。选项D“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”直接指出了做到伟大工作的唯一方法是热爱自己所做的事情。
5. 第五个空，上文提到“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.”，下文应该是对死亡这一话题的进一步阐述。选项E“And yet death is the destination we all share.”指出了尽管人们不想死亡，但死亡是所有人共同的归宿。