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As many of us already know, 【小题1】(have)plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality. Take two famous authors for example. Although they shared the same ambitious and 【小题2】 (energy) approach to life, their careers unfolded in contrasting ways.
The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, had his ambition 【小题3】(write) from early boyhood. He kept writing and wrote novels and short stories 【小题4】 (base) on his personal experiences. His novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. 【小题5】 contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Scotland in 1859, had originally worked as a doctor. Though his main ambition was to become a writer of 【小题6】 (history) novels, he was best known for his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which 【小题7】 (entertain) readers for well over a century.
【小题8】 both of these men were ultimately successful, their paths to success were very different their futures not necessarily 【小题9】 (turn) out exactly as they planned. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take 【小题10】 leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.