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泉州市2014高考英语文章突破一轮训练（8）及答案 (***) Ted Turner achieved high goals and great success by the time he was 43.Best known for his CNN, Ted Turner launched a second nationwide all-news network, Headline News, purchased the Atlanta Braves baseball team, and became the world’s best yachtsman at the America’s Cup in 1977.In 1982 Ted Turner was named by Forbes one of the 400 richest people in the U．S.He was named Time magazine’ s “Man of the Year” in1992.How did Ted Turner accomplish all of this at such a young age? Ted Turner’s father, Ed, was a self-made millionaire who demanded that his only son try to achieve similar success.He instilled in the boy a strong belief that hard work was good.Besides reading a new book every two days, Ted Turner was also charged rent at home during summer vacations from boarding school.Ed Turner was a strong influence in his son’s life. As a child, Ted Turner lived a very lonely life, often separated from his family. During World War Ⅱ， his father served in the Navy. Ed Turner took his wife and daughter with him so they could live nearby but left his 6-year-old son behind in a boarding school in Cincinnati, Ohio. When Ted Turner was in the fifth grade, his father enrolled him in a military academy. Even though Turner had friends at school, it didn’t make up for the absence of his parents and sister. Eventually Ted Turner enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended college off and on, became involved in sailboat racing, and became a member of the U．S. Coast Guard for a while. In his early twenties, he became general manager of one of his father’s branch offices—the Turner Advertising Company in Macon, Georgia. Two years later after his father’s suicide, Ted Turner took over the company.He soon discovered that he was more skilled than his father in managing the business.During the next twenty years, Ted Turner worked hard to accumulate enough power and money to fulfill his father’s dream. Reflecting on his father’s dea