Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is one of the (1) ____________ successful actors in cinema history. However, life hasn't always been that easy for him. (2) ______________a young boy, Tom was shy and had difficulty in finding friends, although he really enjoyed (3) ______________part in school plays. After he had finished High School, Tom went to New York to look (4) ______________work. He found employment (5) ______________ a porter, and at the same time he attended drama classes. In 1980, the film director Frano Zeffirelli offered Tom his first part in a film. Ten years (6) ______________, he had become so successful that he was (7) ______________of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, earning millions of dollars for each film. Today, Tom (8) ______________appears in films and is as popular as ever with his thousands of fans from all around the world.