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1、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. Manypeople did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to st
2、udy in the worlds 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.Thomas EdisonWe can learn fr
3、om the experience of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison that sometimes aseries of apparent failures is really a precursor to success. The voluminous personal papers of Edison reveal that hisinventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous work
4、s.Mother TeresaMother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helpingthe poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name “Saint of the Gutters.“ The devotion towards the poor won herrespect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She fou
5、nded an order of nuns called the Missionaries ofCharity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.Diana SpencerLady Diana Spencer, Princess o
6、f Whales, is remembered and respected by people all overthe world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.Nelson MandelaMandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to
7、 antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and politicalleaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africawon him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant releas
8、e in 1990 from more than aquarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama inthe world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africas antiapartheid movement, he wasinstrumental in moving the nation toward m
9、ultiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vitalforce in the fight for human rights and racial equality.BeethovenBeethoven, 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
10、the most famous and prolific 多产的 composers in arthistory. His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, forms a transition from classicalto romantic composition.George BushOn January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a mas
11、sive U.S.-led militaryoffensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war. The peacekeepingmission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.Jimmy Carter
12、President Carters policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of Americas relationships with other nationscontributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the countrys citizens.
13、TheUnited States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was usingthe refugee 难民 flight to empty his prisons.Neville ChamberlainIn 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact 慕尼黑协定 with Adolf Hitler, an agreement that gaveCze
14、choslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, “peace in our time.“Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact, Germany broke the peace in Europe by invading Poland. A solemnChamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began in Europe.Winston Chur
15、chillIn the early 1930s, Conservative M.P. Winston Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of Nazi aggression from hisseat on a House of Commons backbench.With German tanks racing across France, Churchill spoke to the British people for the first time as prime minister, andpledged a struggl
16、e to the last breath against Nazi conquest and oppression 压迫.In the summer of 1940, the democracies of continental Europe fell to Germany one by one, leaving Great Britain alone in itsresistance to Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader was confident that victory against Britain would come soon, but Churchillprophesied otherwise, telling his countrymen that the Battle of Britain would be “their finest hour.“Bill ClintonIn 1994, President Clinton authorized a military operation to overthrow Haitis m
