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    Grammar in Context

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    This document provides biographical information about Steve Jobs in 3 paragraphs. It begins with a grammar exercise asking the reader to circle the correct words to complete sentences about owning Apple products. The second paragraph describes Steve Jobs' early life, noting he was born in 1955 in San Francisco and enjoyed taking apart electronics as a boy. It discusses his education and dropping out of college after 6 months. The third paragraph outlines his career founding Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976 at age 21 and later having a family, before doctors discovered he had cancer in 2003 from which he died in 2011 at age 56.

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    Grammar in Context

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    This document provides biographical information about Steve Jobs in 3 paragraphs. It begins with a grammar exercise asking the reader to circle the correct words to complete sentences about owning Apple products. The second paragraph describes Steve Jobs' early life, noting he was born in 1955 in San Francisco and enjoyed taking apart electronics as a boy. It discusses his education and dropping out of college after 6 months. The third paragraph outlines his career founding Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976 at age 21 and later having a family, before doctors discovered he had cancer in 2003 from which he died in 2011 at age 56.

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    This document provides biographical information about Steve Jobs in 3 paragraphs. It begins with a grammar exercise asking the reader to circle the correct words to complete sentences about owning Apple products. The second paragraph describes Steve Jobs' early life, noting he was born in 1955 in San Francisco and enjoyed taking apart electronics as a boy. It discusses his education and dropping out of college after 6 months. The third paragraph outlines his career founding Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976 at age 21 and later having a family, before doctors discovered he had cancer in 2003 from which he died in 2011 at age 56.

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    Grammar in Context

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    Andy Rilis
    This document provides biographical information about Steve Jobs in 3 paragraphs. It begins with a grammar exercise asking the reader to circle the correct words to complete sentences about owning Apple products. The second paragraph describes Steve Jobs' early life, noting he was born in 1955 in San Francisco and enjoyed taking apart electronics as a boy. It discusses his education and dropping out of college after 6 months. The third paragraph outlines his career founding Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976 at age 21 and later having a family, before doctors discovered he had cancer in 2003 from which he died in 2011 at age 56.

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    NAME : KEZIA AWAK DATE: 2020-05-09

    NPM : 2019020087

    COMPUTERS
    Grammar-in-Context
    Complete the paragraph by circling the correct words.

    Do you have an iPad, iPod, iPhone, a smartwatch or a Mac computer? If you


    (1)_____, you probably know someone who (2)_____ one (or wants one)! Steve Jobs
    made the company – Apple – that created these things that are now such an important
    part of the lives of millions (3)_____ people.
    He was born (4)_____ February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. When he
    (5)_____ a boy, he had a special hobby: he (6)_____ to take apart televisions and put
    them back together again. He was a very good student in school and even skipped a
    grade. After he (7)_____ grade four, he went into grade six, and in 1972, when he was
    seventeen, he graduated from high school. He then began (8)_____ studies in Reed
    College, in Portland, Oregon, (9)_____ dropped out after six months. Deciding to quit
    was not at all easy. It was difficult, but as Jobs later (10)_____, “I had no idea what I
    wanted to do with my life.” Two years later in 1974, he travelled to India, and while
    there he learned about Buddhism.
    After Steve Jobs returned to the United States, he found a job as a video game
    designer at a company called Atari, and two years after that, in 1976, when (11)_____
    was only twenty-one years old, he created his own company – Apple Computer – with
    his friend, Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs later got married in 1991 and had four children.
    Unfortunately, doctors (12)_____ that he had cancer in 2003 and in 2011 he died at
    the age of only 56.
    1. 5. 9.
    (A) aren’t (A) were (A) so
    (B) not (B) is (B) but
    (C) don’t (C) was (C) because
    (D) isn’t (D) are (D) while
    2. 6. 10.
    (A) has (A) liking (A) says
    (B) have (B) likes (B) say
    (C) is having (C) like (C) said
    (D) having (D) liked (D) saying
    3. 7. 11.
    (A) for (A) finished (A) his
    (B) of (B) finish (B) him
    (C) and (C) finishing (C) he’s
    (D) to (D) finishes (D) he
    4. 8. 12.
    (A) at (A) his (A) discovers
    (B) on (B) he (B) discover
    (C) to (C) him (C) discovery
    (D) in (D) he’s (D) discovered

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