At the age of thirty, Tom Cruise had made fifteen films and earned millions (1)………… dollars. It is interesting that Cruise, like many other successful and ambitious (2)……………., found stardom only (3) ………………..a difficult childhood. Cruise was the third child and the only boy in a (4) ……………….. of four children brought (5) ………………. by parents who worked hard but (6) ……………… stayed long in one town - his father, an engineer, went round the USA looking (7) ……………… work. Cruise had been to half a dozen schools . He had to fit (8) ……………….. quickly at each new school and moving about did not help his education, but he was good at sports, which could be carried on from one school to (9) ……………. His parents divorced when he was twelve, and his father died some years later (10) …………….. seeing any of his son’s films. All the children had to find a job after school to help the family. As a teenager he couldn’t decide (11)………………….to become a priest or a wrestler, but (12)…………..the age of eighteen he chose acting as a career. Now, Cruise has made (13) ………………. much money that he never (14) ……………….. to work again, but this is not (15) ……………… option he is likely to consider seriously for many years to come