《2025年聪明屋寒暑假作业系列丛书暑假作业八年级广西专版》

Ⅳ.Learn to think.
Read the passage about Steve Jobs's ideas.Complete it with the right t words in
the bor.
learn from,started,lessons,important,sold,teachers,brings,
test,mistakes,students
We can take some 1______ from Steve Jobs's amazing life.Steve Jobs had a passion(激
情)for education.He is resting in peace,but we still have a chance to 2.______ his courage
and innovation(革新).
Making Mistakes
I think that the main reason why we can hardly find proper ways to improve the
education system that no longer serves us well is simply fear,fear of failure,fear of
getting it wrong.3.______ fear that innovation could endanger their jobs.Steve had the
attitude we need in education right now.“ Sometimes when you create something,you
make 4.______.It is best to admit them and get on with improving your other
innovations.” That's the kind of spirit we need to have.
Motivation(动机)Matters
We've concentrated(专注于)so much on results that we don't always reward good
motivations.But these things are very important.In our schools,we've cared so much
about 5______ results that we've lost creativity.We seldom reward 6______ for
their hard work,but we punish failure.As a result,we lose imagination and find no
motivation to try something that has a chance of ending in failure.
How to Define(定义)Failure?
Apple,the company that Steve Jobs 7______ shows us how technology could
influence educational innovation.But in 1985,he was forced out of Apple.At the same
year,he started NeXT.The company developed and manufactured(制造)a ser lies of((一系
列)computer workstations intended for(打算供……使用)the higher education and
bus sines s market.NeXT wasn't really financially(经济上)successful.But it may have
been ahead of its time.Today,we see what the technology 8..______ into the
classroom.
Changing Our Model
The company 9______ around 50,000 computers,but that would be missing the
point.It was a NeXT cube workstation that encouraged the first web server.It helped in
the development of early Internet technology.Truly,Steve Jobs has taught us that results
are not the most 10.______ things in life.
Underline the new words and ve rite out their meanings in the passage,then make up
sentences vu ith them.
11.______ 12.______
13.______ 14.______
15.______

答案： 1. lessons 2. learn from 3. Teachers 4. mistakes 5. test 6. students 7. started 8. brings 9. sold 10. important 11—15. Answers are variable.