There are a lot of famous people who have achieved much.

There are a lot of famous people who have achieved much. But not all of them got on well at the beginning of their carrier. Complete the information about some of these people with the correct verb forms.
Winston Churchill (0) was (to be) never a good student
and some teachers believed that he (1)____________(not
to achieve) anything. Though Churchill is considered by historians to be one of the greatest politicians of all time,
he (2) ____________ (not to become) Prime Minister
until he (3) ____________ (to be) 62. He (4)
____________ (to award) the Nobel Prize for Literature
when he was 79.
Samuel Morse (5) ____________ (to become) an
inventor after he (6) ____________ (to try) unsuccessfully to be a professional painter. Returning from
Britain, where he (7) ____________ (to study), nbsp;he
understood that his pictures would not sell. It seems
surprising that Morse (8)------------------ (to consider)
to be a painter when he (9)____________(to invent)
a new way of sending messages.
Richard Hooker (10)
(to work) for
seven years on his humorous war novel, MASH. And
it (11) ____________ (to refuse) by 21 publishers
before Morrow (12) ____________ (to decide) to publish it. The novel (13)____________(to become) a bestseller and a highly successful television series.