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Bill GatesWhen Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’ s No.1 University. However , with size comes power , Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world. Dinner table discussions in the Gate’ s family home were always lively and educational. “ It was a rich environment in which to learn,” Bill remembered. One of his summer camp friends recalled, “ He was never a nerd(讨厌的人 ) or a goof （呆瓜） or the kind of kid you didn’t want your team. We all knew Bill was smarter than us. Even back then, when he was nine or ten years old, he talked like an adult and could express himself in ways that none of us understood.” Whenever they had free time, and sometimes when they didn’ t, they would dash（猛冲）over to the computer room to use the machine. The students became so single-minded that they soon overtook their teachers in knowledge about computing and got into a lot of trouble because of their obsession（着魔） . One of the reasons Bill was so good at programming is because it is mathematical and logical. During his time at Lakeside, Bill scored a perfect eight hundred on a mathematics test. MACHINE MAD — HENRY FORD （亨利 .福特）Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford knew little of all this — but he soon showed signs that he belonged to a new generation of Americans interested more in the industrial future than in the agricultural past. Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would join him on the farm， enable it to expand, and eventually take it over. But Henry proved a disappointment. He hated farm work and did everything he could to avoid it. It was not that he was lazy. Far from it, Give him a mechanical job to do， from mending the hinges of a gate to sharpening tools, and he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its repetitive tasks, that frustrated him. The Firm Helen KellerThe fever, occurred when she was a little baby, cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release. Helen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive. Sometimes she stood between two people and touched their lips. She could not understand what they said and she could not make any meaningful sounds herself. She wanted to talk but no matter how she tried she could not make herself understood. This makes her so angry that she used to hurl herself around the room, kicking and screaming in frustration. grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker . After her death in 1968 an organization was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organizations working with blind people overseas. Thomas EdisonWe can learn from the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison that sometimes a series of apparent failures is really a precursor(先锋 ) to success. The voluminous （大多） personal papers of Edison reveal that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works. Nelson Mandela Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism（反种族主义）and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression（种族压迫）in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Beethoven（贝多芬）Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history. His music formes a transition from classical to romantic composition. Mohandas Gandhi（莫汉达斯 .甘地）In 1931, Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was released from prison to attend the London Round Table Conference on India as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. ConfuciusNo other philosopher in the world has had more enduring influence than Confucius. For over two thousand years his concept of government, and his ideas about personal conduct and morality, permeated（弥漫）Chinese life and culture. Even today, his thoughts remain influential.注：仔细看其中的否定比较句型，词汇的变化He was born in a small principality in northeastern Chin。