请阅读 Passage 1，完成第 21 ～ 25 小题。

 Passage 1

       Businesses throw around the term to show they’re on the cutting edge of everything from technology and medicine to snacks and cosmetics. Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovation strategies and even innovation days.

       But that doesn’t mean the companies are actually doing any innovating. Instead they are using the word to convey monumental change when the progress they’re describing is quite ordinary. Like the once ubiquitous buzzwords “synergy” and “optimization”, innovation is in danger of becoming a cliche—if it isn’t one already.

       “Most companies say they’re innovative in the hope they can somehow con investors into thinking there is growth when there isn’t,” says Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School.

       The definition of the term varies widely depending on whom you ask.

       To Bill Hickey, chief executive of Bubble Wrap’s maker, Sealed Air Corp, it means inventing a product that has never existed, such as packing material that inflates on delivery.

       To Pfizer Inc.’s research and development head, Mikael Dolsten, it is extending a product’s scope and application, such as expanding the use of a vaccine for infants that is also effective in older adults.

       Scott Berkun, the author of the 2007 book The Myths of Innovation, which warns about the dilution of the word, says that what most people call an innovation is usually just a “very good product”. He prefers to reserve the word for civilization-changing inventions like electricity, the printing press and the telephone—and, more recently, perhaps the iPhone.

       Mr. Berkun, now an innovation consultant, advises clients to ban the word at their companies. “It is a chameleon-like word to hide the lack of substance,” he says. The word appeals to large companies because it has connotations of being agile and “cool”, like start- ups and entrepreneurs, he adds.

       The innovation trend has given birth to an attendant consulting industry, and Fortune 100 companies pay innovation consultants $300,000 to $1 million for work on a single project, which can amount to $1 million to $10 million a year, estimates Booz & Co. innova- tion strategy consultant Alex Kandybin.

       In addition, four in 10 executives say their company now has a chief innovation officer, according to a recent study of the phenomenon released last month by Capgemini Consulting.

       The findings, based on an online survey of 260 global executives and 25 in-depth interviews, suggest that such titles may be mainly “for appearances”. Most of the executives conceded their companies still don’t have a clear innovation strategy to support the role.

       As companies have sped up product cycles, the word has come to signify not just doing something new but also doing it more quickly, he says.

请阅读Passage 2，完成第 26～30小题。

Passage 2

       Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and formerly Pixar.

       Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later, he dropped out, later taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures.

       Steve Jobs had a deep-seated interest in technology, so he took up a job at Atari Inc, then a leading manufacturer of video games. He struck a friendship with fellow designer Steve Wozniak and attended Homebrew Computer Club meetings with him.

       After saving up some money, Jobs took off for India in the search of enlightenment. Once he returned, he convinced Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett Packard to join him in his venture that concerned personal computers. They sold items like scientific calculators to raise seed capital.

       In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family garage. The first personal computer was sold for $666.66. By 1980, Apple had already released three improved versions of the personal computer. It had a wildly successful IPO (Initial Public Offering), which made both founders millionaires many times over.

       A tiff with the Apple’s Board of Directors and John Scully led to Jobs’ resignation. Steve Jobs decided that he wanted to change the hardware industry. The company was called NeXt Step, which produced the NeXt Computer. The machine was a commercial washout but helped with future work in object-oriented programming, PostScript, and magneto- optical devices. Jobs returned to his original company after Apple acquired NeXt in 1996.

       Steve Jobs also started Pixar, which has produced multiple blockbuster films, including Toy Story (1995); A Bug’s Life (1998); Toy  Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Finding

       Nemo (2003); and The Incredibles (2004).

       In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his pancreas, which was successfully treated.

       Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011 and subsequently assumed the role of Chairman of the Board.

       On October 5, 2011, Jobs passed away.

       What Steve Jobs Left Untouched? There were a lot of things Steve Jobs was right about. Probably the most important thing he got right was realizing that you need to build a great stadium before you can invent great sports. An example of this was the decision in 1986 to build every Mac with networking.

（材料）下面是一位教师的英语课堂教学片段。

Teacher：Good morning class! We had a wonderful party yesterday....Jack, why were you absent?

Jack （in a low voice）： I got a fever and went to see a doctor.

Teacher： I am sorry,Ican't hear you. Tom,what did Jack say?

Tom： He got a fever and went to see the doctor.

Teacher： Oh, Jack said that he had got a fever and gone to see the doctor. Now we are going to learn the indirect speech.

语言素材：

Helen: Hi, Tom! I’m making some plans to work in an old people’s home this summer.

Tom: Really? I did that last summer!

Helen: Oh. What did they ask you to help with?

Tom: Mm... things like reading the newspaper to the old people, or just talking to them. They told me stories about the past and how things used to be.

Helen: That sounds interesting!

Tom: Yeah, a lot of old people are lonely. We should listen to them and care for them.

Helen: You’re right. I mean, we’re all going to be old one day, too.