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    Carl lost his job.He watched his neighbour's house, where an old professor lived. He found that the rooms were full of antique (古董) furniture and vases (花瓶) . Then an idea came up to his mind, "Why haven't I got an antique vase?"

    Carl had an old gun (枪). It had been his great-grandfather's favourite thing a long time before. Carl didn't want to use the gun but he thought, "Anything could happen." He wanted to hide the gun under his coat but it was too long so he cut the end off.

    Next morning he watched the professor leaving home at 10:00.He didn't know much about arts. He reached his hands towards a big vase when he heard a noise. Someone entered the house. It was the professor. He had forgotten to take an important document."I haven t stolen anything. I just want to go away or I will shoot," cried Carl. "With that gun?" asked the professor and he began to laugh. He wasn't afraid of Carl.

    He said, "You can't shoot with that antique gun. Its place is in a museum."

    "Is this really an antique gun?" asked Car. ""

    "It was worth about 17,000 dollars," said the professor. "But now you can get 10 dollars for it."

    "Why?" asked Carl.

    The professor said, "Because its end is missing."

    What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?

    Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed

    Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.

    Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect

    Find your answers from facts-not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on the Earth came from icy comets(封星)or planets which hit into the Earth.

    However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge. This suggests that the Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activities.

    "I had a pretty hard time making others believe it," he said." But think about the fact that you may be the first person to see something for the first time that doesn't happen very often. When it does, it's amazing."

    Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way

    Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency's "Philae", a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which is 480 million kilometres away. The trip from the Earth by "Philae" had taken ten years!

    The scientists had no idea what the surface of the comet would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted.

    When "Philae" tried to land, it bounced(弹起)away from the comet's icy surface twice. Luckily, however, "Philae" landed successfully and began sending information back to the Earth.