Reading Comprehension - Steve Jobs Biography: Steve Jobs, The American Businessman and Technology Visionary

Reading Comprehension - Steve Jobs Biography
Steve Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary

who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief
executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on February 24, 1955.
His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students,
Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali.
They were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching
in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to
put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family
objected to their relationship.
The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–

1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs
replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He stated in his
authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." Unknown to him, his
biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child,
novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.
The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve
was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul was a machinist for a
company that made lasers, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work
with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage,
demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and
televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical
tinkering. Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school.
Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma
Elementary school in Mountain View, he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher
needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to
skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined. Jobs then attended
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Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. During the
following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid.
Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were
spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of
college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes,
including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping
on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting
weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an
electronics industry worker, founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in
order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing
manager and engineer Mike Markkula.
Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal
computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer
electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation
Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in
2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications
from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.
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1. Who is the founder of apple inc?
2. When apple brand was born?
3. Whay jandali put his son in the place of adoption?
4. Who teaches steve jobs about electronics?
5. Who invented the first apple computer ?
6. When steve jobs die?
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7. What causes steve jobs to die?
8. Who is adopting steve?
9. Steve is known as?
10. Why steve was expelled from college?
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The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–

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