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Exercise 7. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Nowadays, everybody knows Apples and (35) ____ everybody knows that the company was founded by Steve Jobs, an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of microcomputer revolution. He helped design the first Macintosh computer, (36) ____ a small computer graphics company into Pixar, the company behind Toy Story and The Monster Inc.

His countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing. Jobs was adopted and raised in San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s. In 1972, Jobs attended Reed College from which he (37) ____ in next to no time. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 in order to sell Apple I personal computer. At that moment, he might hardly imagine that only a year later the company tasted impressive victory with Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. (38) ____, in 1985, following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple. After leaving Apple, Jobs took (39) ____ of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer development company which was then bought by Apple. The purchase allowed Jobs to become the company's CEO once again.

Steve Jobs died in 2011 after battling with pancreatic cancer (40) ____ nearly a decade. Millions first learned of Job's death on a device which had been invented by himself.

Câu 352711: (36)

A. translated

B. transferred

C. transformed

D. transited

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Câu hỏi : 352711

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Phương pháp giải:

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Đáp án : C
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Giải chi tiết:
A. translate – translated – translated: dịch

B. transfer – transferred – transferred: dời, chuyển

C. transform – transformed – transformed: thay đổi, biến đổi

D. transit – transited – transited: đi qua (thiên văn học)

He helped design the first Macintosh computer, (36) transformed a small computer graphics company into Pixar, the company behind Toy Story and The Monster Inc.

Tạm dịch: Ông ấy giúp việc thiết kế lần đầu của máy tính Macintosh, biến một công ty đồ họa máy tính nhỏ thành Pixar, công ty đứng sau Toy Story và The Monster Inc.

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