36. Bill Gates

As a child, and as an adult as well, Bill was untidy. It has been said that in order to counteract this, Mary drew up weekly clothing plans for him. Weekend meal 1）____ might also be planned in detail. Every time, at work or during his leisure time.

Dinner table discussions in the Gates’ family home were always lively and educational. “It was a rich environment in which to learn”, Bill remembered.

Bill’s contemporaries, even at the age, recognized that he was 2）____. Every year, he and his friends would go to summer camp . Bill especially liked swimming and other sports. One of his summer camp friends 3）____,“He was never a goof or the kind of kid you didn’t want in your team. We all knew Bill was 4）____ than us. Even back then, when he was nine or ten years old, he talked like an adult and 5）____himself in ways that none of us understood”.

Bill was also well ahead of his classmates in mathematics and science. He needed to go to a school that challenged him to Lakeside----an all-boys’ school for exceptional students. It was Seattle’s most exclusive school and was noted for its rigorous (严厉的，严格的) 6）____ demands, a place where 7）“____”.

Lakeside allowed students to 8) ____ their own interests, to whatever extent they wished. The school 9) ____ itself on making conditions and facilities available that would 10) ____. It was the ideal environment for someone like Bill Gates.