Jack London was born in San Francisco, California, in 1876. He ___(1)___ a high place in American literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time, the library shelves and bookshops of America were already ___(2)___ books by ___(3)___ writers. But Jack London's stories were new, his characters were not ___(4)___ the ones in the books of those writers, and the pictures he painted were not the same ___(5)___ their pictures. The characters in Jack London's books live a different life, a life of danger. In his stories, the heroes are afraid of nothing and nothing can ___(6)___ them. People in his books never give up ___(7)___ ; They never stop ___(8)___ for life even when the end of life ___(9)___ very near. That is the lesson for us to apply in everything we want and everything we do. If we do not ___(10)___ hope, we must and will win.