Do you remember the famous saying, “Where there is a will, there is a way（有志者,事竟成）.”? Thomas Edison was a _____ American inventor(发明家). ______ he was a child, he was always trying out new things. His mother loved him very much. She called _____Tom. Young Tom was ______ school for only three ______ . During those three months, he asked his teacher a lot of ______. Most of the questions were not _____his lessons. His teacher thought he wasn’t clever and told his mother _____him out of school. Edison’s mother had to ______him herself. Edison learned very quickly. He read a lot, and later he became very interested in science and invented _____ useful things.

Tim Berners-Lee looks ordinary---he is about 45 years old and has brown hair. His life is quite normal---he was born in England, and lives in Massachusetts, USA now. But in 1989, Tim had a very _______ idea. He invented（创造）the World Wide Web (www)!

Tim went to school in London. His parents both _______ with computers, so it isn’t surprising that he loved computers from an early age. When he was eighteen, he left school and went to Oxford University, where he studied Physics. At Oxford，he became more and more _______computers and he made his first computers from an old television. He graduated（毕业） in 1976 and got a job in a computer company in Dorset, England. In 1989, he went to work in Switzerland, where he first had the _______of an international information network linked （连接） by computer and he _______ to call it the World Wide Web.

In 1995, he wrote an article in The New York Times and said “The Web is a Universe of information: it is for _______.” His idea of a web, where people from all over the world can exchange information, is now real.

At the age of 16, Einstein failed in several exams because he often played with some bad kids. One weekend morning, Einstein carried a fishing net and prepared to go fishing with those ______. His father stopped him and said to him calmly, “Einstein, you were spending too much time ______, so you failed in the exams. I’m ______ about your future with your mother.”

“What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also ______ in the exams, but they went fishing as usual.”

“My boy, you can’t think so,” Looking at Einstein. his father said lovingly, “There is a ______ in our hometown. I hope you can listen to it carefully.”

“There were two cats playing on the roof. ______, they fell into the chimney. When they climbed out of the chimney, one cat’s face was dirty ______ the other’s was clean. Seeing the dirty-faced cat, the clean-faced one thought its own face was also dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its ______. The dirty-faced cat saw the clean-faced one, thinking its own face was clean as well, so it still walked happily in the street.”

“Einstein, ______ can be your mirror. Only you are your own mirror. Some of the kids are not strict with themselves. If you take them to be your mirror, even a ______ person may become stupid.” Hearing this, Einstein’s face turned red. He put down his fishing net and returned to his small room.

After that, Einstein often took himself as a mirror to be ______ with himself, and kept telling himself,” I am special, so I needn’t be as common as others.” This was why Einstein ______ in his career.

1,000 people have 1,000 kinds of wishes in life. Different wishes will produce different ______ about life. You can learn from other people, but you can ______ follow others completely.

You must see yourself clearly, and know what you want to get. Your future doesn’t ______ how others act, but on how you are going to act.