Mother Teresa

On August 27,1910 she was born in Yugoslavia She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. When she left school, she went first to Britain. Mother Teresa’s Lifetime

Then a year later she went to India, where she began to train to be a teacher. After training, she was sent to Calcutta( 加尔格答 ), where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress. In 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of Calcutta.

Later she trained to become a nurse in Patna, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. Traveled the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. In 1979,she was given the Nobel Peace Prize Died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India.

In 1979, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for the lifetime of love and service she had given to the poor.

Beethoven

Beethoven was a great composer. During his life he created many beautiful and famous works. Many of his works are well kept today. At an early age, Beethoven took an interest in music, and his father taught him day and night. At the age of 8, he gave his first known public performance. Though he couldn’t hear anything any more at the age of 45, he still continued to work for his music, and he successfully finished the ninth and tenth symphony at last. It is said that he wrote a great deal more than those well-known works. There are thus hundreds of them have been available only to scholars and specialists until now.

Beethoven never married. As a young man he had loved deeply one of his pupils Guicciardi, Julietta. But her father would never let her marry an ordinary person, much less a poor musician. In the sorrow of his heart, Beethoven created one of his greatest music -- the Moonlight Sonata

Bill Gates -- god of the microchip, the Henry Ford of our day.

Bill Gates, the chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Bill Gates is regarded as of the richest man in the world. He is the boss of Microsoft and the founder of it. At the age of 18,he got involved in computers. A year later, he built his company. Now Microsoft has made a lot of advances. It shows us a whole new information age. Bill Gates has donated much money to the world so he's also called a great charitable gentleman. I think he is not only a successful businessman but also a generous person.

Zhang Heng

Zhang Heng lived from AD78 to 139. When young, he was interested in stars. Zhang Heng built a model, which could show how stars move during the seasons and drew pictured of what he saw, including the heavens. At that time, it was difficult to make people believe new theories, but Zhang Heng didn’t give up even when people laughed at him. Instead, he went on with his research and continued his exploration of the universe. He also invented the first seismograph forseismograph measuring earthquakes.

Zhang Heng’s grave