Intriguing Encounters: Jobs, Afterlife, and More

Posted on Feb 9, 2025 in Other university degrees and diplomas

The Day I Met the Strange and Inscrutable Steve Jobs

  1. d) Steve Jobs hardly ever granted interviews.
  2. a) Jobs was a very strict person.
  3. a) He was quite different from what I had expected.
  4. c) Still influenced by the incident with the fans.
  5. b) Jobs simply repeated the same explanation he always gave.
  6. d) Simply did not answer.
  7. a) Followed a well-established routine.
  8. d) Difficult to define.

Death Sites: How to Log In Your Afterlife

  1. d) Keep your online profiles safe after your death.
  2. c) Any kind of personal online information that is kept after your death.
  3. b) The user’s beneficiaries can access his/her online profiles.
  4. a) Is sent by the website to certify the user’s death.
  5. c) Allows your authorized friends access to your online messages.
  6. a) There is no site that gives out the passwords of deceased users.
  7. c) Makes all your digital posthumous legacy available to allowed people.
  8. d) Divided.

Living in Harmony with the Land

  1. A dry region badly communicated.
  2. Play an important role in processing food.
  3. Had to face many adverse circumstances.
  4. Has improved in many ways.
  5. Has recovered her old way of life.
  6. To preserve wildlife and traditional farming.
  7. To become more autonomous.
  8. Hardship and survival.

What the Au Pair Saw

  1. c. What Slovakian au pairs think about British families.
  2. b. The idea of bringing up children and working at the same time.
  3. a. Is not shared by Slovakian au pairs.
  4. d. They don’t care enough about their children.
  5. b. Do not spend enough time with their children.
  6. a. Don’t feed their children healthily.
  7. b. Wonderful.
  8. d. It’s a way of learning a language and earning some money.

The Camino de Santiago: The English Way

  1. c. And a man gave him directions even before he asked.
  2. a. Pilgrims started to come to Santiago in the 12th century.
  3. b. You just pay a small amount to spend a night in an albergue.
  4. d. Pilgrims who take on the Camino expect absolute forgiveness.
  5. d. Doesn’t take as long to complete as the other routes.
  6. a. As if he was in England because the landscape was similar to that of Cornwall.
  7. c. He wanted to experience a cheap walking holiday.
  8. d. He had completed the Camino.

Digital and Traditional Tools

  1. d. Thinks personal friendships are stronger than those made through the net.
  2. b. The power of bringing people together in forums of discussion and protest.
  3. a. If they are used alongside traditional forms of communication.
  4. a. Combine the best of both worlds by bringing our digital world onto our real one.
  5. c. In the non-digital world.
  6. d. He finds it valuable if you know how to extract its benefits.
  7. a. Positive.
  8. d. The internet may become the most powerful political tool in the future.

Teen Spirit: The Secret Life of Britain’s Teenage Boys

  1. Because he has always dreamt of becoming a pilot.
  2. They have mixed feelings at the adults’ reactions to them.
  3. A person that delivers the paper to people’s houses.
  4. Their relationship has changed and she now explains things to him.
  5. African parents encourage their children to use language correctly.
  6. He disapproves of their drinking and thinks they take no interest in school.
  7. There is no racist attitude to be detected among these children.
  8. Nas’s generation has been unjustly demonized.

Members of Parliament Vote Against Tobacco

  1. Tobacco will no longer be displayed at points of sale.
  2. Legally provide a product that causes death.
  3. To stop the presence of tobacco machines in pubs.
  4. It reinforces the existing law against easy access to addictive products.
  5. The new law will reduce the percentage of addictions amongst youngsters.
  6. In time of recession shop-keepers will lose business.
  7. Campaign against Labour vote at the general election.
  8. Help prevent children from becoming potential smokers.

Degrowth: When Less Is More

  1. People consuming less than at present.
  2. d) A new attitude concerning consumerism.
  3. b) Permanent growth.
  4. a) Might not be enough in the near future.
  5. d) The well-being of people is not necessarily related to having more resources.
  6. c) That progress does not depend only on growth.
  7. d) Usually against working many hours.
  8. a) Less happy now despite being richer.