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How to live before you die. : Connecting the dots.

皆さん、こんにちは!
今回はApple社の創設者であり、iMacやiPod、iPhone等の革新的な製品を世に送り出したスティーブ・ジョブズのスピーチを扱います。彼はそのカリスマ性の高さや魅力的なプレゼンテーションで多くの人々を魅了して...
 皆さん、こんにちは!

 今回はApple社の創設者であり、iMacやiPod、iPhone等の革新的な製品を世に送り出したスティーブ・ジョブズのスピーチを扱います。彼はそのカリスマ性の高さや魅力的なプレゼンテーションで多くの人々を魅了してきました。2011年10月に亡くなったときに日本でも大きなニュースになったので皆さんの中にも彼を知っている人も多いでしょう。

 多くの印象的な言葉を残した彼ですが、その中でも非常に有名なものの一つが2005年にスタンフォード大学の卒業式で行ったHow to live before you die.というスピーチです。3つのストーリーから成る14分ほどの少し長めのスピーチですので今回から3回に分けて扱っていきます。

 今回は始めのおよそ5分30秒分のConnecting the dots.という話を扱います。タイトルを直訳すれば「点と点を結ぶこと」。抽象的なタイトルですので一体点とは何のことなのか、そして点と点を結ぶとは結局どういうことなのか注意して聞いてみて下さい!



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問題

問1. 次の(1)〜(4)の問いに対してそれぞれ正しい答えを一つ選び、その記号を記せ。
(1) Steve’s biological mother refused to sign the final adoption papers because …
ア she thought the adoptive parents couldn’t afford to raise him up properly.
イ the adoptive parents really want a girl, not a boy.
ウ she found out that the adoptive father had dropped out of a college.
エ she found out that the adoptive parents didn’t graduate from a college.

(2) After he decided to drop out, …
ア he rented a flat and did part-time job to live alone.
イ he visit Hare Krishna temple to get foods for free every night.
ウ he felt scared but got into what satisfy his curiosity.
エ he kept on taking the normal class though he didn’t need to.

(3) According to the speaker, which of the following is NOT true?
ア Every poster in Reed college was calligraphed beautifully by hand.
イ He couldn’t find any practical application of calligraphy throughout his life.
ウ The Mac, the first computer he designed, had beautiful typogtraphy.
エ If he had not dropped out the college, personal computers would not have wonderful typograohy that they have now today.

(4) Which of the following is the main theme of this speech?
ア You should look forward and do anything hard in order to connect the dots.
イ Though you can’t know a dot will be a helpful, you should do what you can now hard.
ウ You should make as many dots as you can to succeed in the IT business.
エ You should make dots which are likely to be useful in your future business.


問2. 以下の文章が英文と一致するように空所(1)~(4)を埋めよ。

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class ( 1 ). I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about ( 2 ). It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even ( 3 ) in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If ( 4 ) that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.






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