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Like that of her own character,HarryPotter, J. K. Rowling's life is like a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling __1__HarryPotterandThe
Sorcerer'sStone__2__ a table in a caf? during her daughter's naps-and it wasHarryPotter__3__
rescued her.
Rowling __4__ that she always wanted to write and that the first __5__ she actually wrote down,
when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit. Many of her favorite __7__ center
around readinghearingTheWindintheWillows__8__ aloud by her father when she had the measles
(麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all,TheLittle
WhiteHorse.
At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and __9__ one year studying in Paris. After
college she moved to London to __10__ as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about
working in an office, she has said, was __11__ up stories on the computer when no one was __12__.
During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the
idea __13__ her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't know it. He __14__ a school for wizardry-she
could see him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train __15__ into King's Cross station four hours
later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully __16__ in her head. The story
took further shape as she continued working on it in __17__ and cafes over her lunch hours.
After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her
infant daughter and a suitcase full ofHarryPotternotes and __18__. She settled in Edinburgh to be near
her sister and __19__ to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter's
carriage around the city to escape their __20__, cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to
write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.

(     )1. A. read     (     )2. A. on           (     )3. A. what         (     )4. A. remembers     (     )5. A. book         (     )6. A. naming       (     )7. A. songs         (     )8. A. spoken       (     )9. A. cost         (     )10. A. regard       (     )11. A. searching   (     )12. A. noticing     (     )13. A. came to     (     )14. A. studies     (     )15. A. entered     (     )16. A. organized   (     )17. A. theatres     (     )18. A. chapters     (     )19. A. set about   (     )20. A. splendid

B. recited   B. in       B. that     B. thinks   B. story     B. published B. sports   B. said     B. spared   B. consider B. reading   B. watching B. struck to B. attends   B. pulled   B. taken     B. pubs     B. books     B. set off   B. large

C. wrote       C. around     C. which       C. reminds     C. novel       C. called     C. things     C. told       C. took       C. work       C. listening   C. observing   C. stuck to   C. builds     C. reached     C. formed     C. cinemas     C. magazines   C. set up     C. comfortable

D. copied     D. at         D. who         D. supposes   D. fiction     D. replaced   D. memories   D. read       D. spent       D. treat       D. typing     D. seeing     D. hit on     D. goes       D. arrived     D. happened   D. concerts   D. newspapers D. set out     D.  tiny

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