Read the following passage and do the given activities : (10 marks)A1. Name the following with reference to the passage : (2) [Table with two columns — Activity and Name. (i) The company started by the narrator and Woz. (ii) The second company starte…
Q.2 (A) Read the following passage and do the given activities : (10 marks)
A1. Name the following with reference to the passage : (2) [Table with two columns — Activity and Name. (i) The company started by the narrator and Woz. (ii) The second company started by the narrator. (iii) An amazing woman the narrator fell in love with. (iv) World’s most successful animation studio.]
My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple when I was 20. In 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company. And then I got fired. It was devastating.
But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company Next, another company named Pixar, and I fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
Pixar is now the world’s most successful animation studio, Apple bought Next. I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
A2. Complete the following web diagram : (2) [Web diagram: two central boxes — the upper one reads “Advice given by Steve Jobs” with one blank box joined on each side, and the lower one reads “The theme of Jobs’ second story” with one blank box joined on each side.]
A3. Fill in the blanks choosing the correct phrases in their proper form from the bracket : (2) (to get fired, devastating, begin to dawn on) (i) On committing persistent mistakes the employee ........................ from his post. (ii) When the teacher explained the solution of the problems in Maths, it ....................... the students that the problems were easy.
A4. Do as directed : (2) (i) Identify the tense of the underlined verb : If you haven’t found yet, keep looking. (ii) I found what I loved to do early in life. (Identify the main and subordinate clause.)
A5. ‘Failure is the key to success.’ Explain in your own words. (2)