Fryderyk Chopin was a famous p    30     and music writer. He was b    31     on March 1,1810 in a small village in Poland. His family m    32     to Warsaw when Chopin was seven months old. When he was six years old, he started to t    33     piano lessons. Soon he played even b    34     than his teacher. A year later, he began to g    35     concerts. In 1825, when he was 15 years old, people said he was the best pianist in Warsaw. They called him the poet of the piano because his music could touch the h    36     of his listeners.

Chopin became s    37     ill when he was only 25 and continued to have bad health into his old age. In his last years, he was very weak but kept on w    38     music until he died in 1849. The world lost a musical talent, but his spirit continues to live in his w    39     today.

Bill Gates _______ on October 28th, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very _______ boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and math._______ he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers _______ very large machines. Once he was very interested _______ a very old computer. He and some of his friends _______ lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program (软件程序) with the old machine. Bill _______ it for $4,200 when he was only 17.

In 1973, Bill _______ Harvard University. In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company (公司) called Microsoft. Bill began his company in 1975 _______ his friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing the software for personal computers. They improved (改进) the software to ________ it easier for people to use computers.