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Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success ________ fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the ________ in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no ________ of knowing that his life was to change ________ . The class experiment that day was to ________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling（冒泡）to the surface. ________ , the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat ________ held something more volatile（易挥发的）than water. When Wilson heated it, the container ________ , leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents ________ to find a way to deal with the disaster that had ________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ________ . He learned braille（盲文）quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became an accomplished public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from blindness for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to ________ his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be ________ so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the commitment Wilson made to preventing the preventable.

Wilson received several international awards for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a ________ . He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ________our lives — it’s what we make of what happens.