Success never comes easy. How many of you have heard of successful people who haven't made any effort? People often have to overcome failures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they can accomplish something great. They usually don't find success from the very beginning.

    Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime, but this didn't stop him from completing over 800 painting. Thomas Edison {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(fire) from his first two jobs for lack of competence. Later, as an inventor, he tried 1,000 times {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(create) the light bulb, without success. He was confident in {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(he), and{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(eventual) he did success. When {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (ask), “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} invention with 1,000 steps.

    These successful people have set good {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(example) to us. They wouldn't have achieved their success if they{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(abandon)their dreams. Believe in yourself and try your best, and success will not be far{#blank#}10{#/blank#} you.

    Today we talk about a word that is a feeling as well as a place. This word is “home.” Long ago in the 1700s, “home” was used as a verb,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (mean) “to be guided to a destination.” So, when you home in on something, you get {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(close) to your target. For example, you could say, “Police are homing in on the suspects.” That is also where we get homing pigeons－pigeons that can find {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) way home after being released.

    But today, “home” is more often used as a noun. And it has a very emotional {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(connect) for American English speakers. You can remember the meaning of the word by the expression “home is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the heart is.” That expression means home is anywhere you feel love and comfort. It is a place where you belong, and often a place you consider your origin. In other {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (word), “home” is not {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(simple) a building where you live—that's a house. There is a big difference {#blank#}8{#/blank#}a home and a house.

    The writer, Thomas Wolfe, had {#blank#}9{#/blank#} different idea about home. In 1940, his book “You Can't Go Home Again”{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (publish). Today we use this title to mean that the ideas and feelings that you had as a child often change when you are an adult. So, even if you return to the place where you grew up, time and distance have changed your perspective (观点).

    Speaking of talented people, we will think of the young. Mozart created his first piano concerto at 11. Yet I can 't help but draw much{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(inspire) from those who succeeded at an old age.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(give ) hope, I am convinced that our dreams can come true if we have faith {#blank#}3{#/blank#}ourselves and keep learning and working for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

    Consider the story of Mary Declany, a 72﹣year﹣old woman from the UK, who invented a new art form in the 1770s. On a visit to a friend, she met two plant experts who{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take) a trip with an explorer through the South  Pacific. Interested in their work, she picked up a pair of{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(scissor) and began making flower collages with cut paper.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}surprised us most was that her works of art were so unique and{#blank#}8{#/blank#} （value) that they were on display in the British Museum. There's the modern versio {#blank#}9{#/blank#} （create) our lives, without worrying about our age. And away from the mysterious world, Colonel Sanders didn't open his first KFC restaurant {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he was 62, while Fauja Singh ran his first marathon at 89.

    The way we tell stories has naturally changed since Aristotle defined the rules of tragedy about 2,500 years ago. According to him, the role of storytelling is to imitate life and make us feel emotions. And that's exactly what storytelling as we know it has done very well since then. But there is an aspect of life {#blank#}1{#/blank#} storytelling could never really reproduce. It is the notion of choices.

    Choices are a very important part of our lives. We as individuals {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (define) by the choices we make. As an interactive writer, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fascinate) with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction, I have tried to put the audience in the shoes of the main characters. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (explore) a way to achieve this is what I did in the past 20 years of my life.

    So do you have an idea of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} my work is about as an interactive writer? Where a writer needs to deal with time and space, as an interactive writer, I need to deal with time, space and possibilities. I need to think about all the possibilities {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the characters could encounter different people and different things in a given scene and try to imagine everything that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} happen.

    The interactive writer's experience is very unique, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it is the result of the cooperation between a writer creating this narrative landscape and the player making his own decisions, telling his own story and becoming the cowriter but also the coactor and the codirector of the story. Interactive storytelling is a revolution in the way we tell stories.

    Jane Goodall was born in London, England {#blank#}1{#/blank#}April 3, 1934. When she was a young girl, Jane {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(spend) as much time, outside as she could. She loved the Tarzan stories. At {#blank#}3{#/blank#}age of eleven, Jane decided to go to Africa. As a young lady, her passion grow {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(strong), and when a close friend invited her to Kenya in 1957, Jane immediately accepted. After earning her PhD, she returned to Tanzania to continue observing chimpanzees(黑猩猩).There, through her hard work, chimpanzees {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (record) for the first time as eating meat.