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The idea for the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone c_____小题1:_______to Joanne Kathleen Rowling in 1990. It took her seven years to finish writing it. D_____小题2:_____those seven years she had a number of jobs. One of them was t______小题3:______ English in PortugalRowling sent the book to four publishers (出版商) before one of them bought it. She wasvery happy to sell her book because it was her d____小题4:______ to become a writer. Beforeshe sold her book, Rowling was living in a small house with her daughter and was very poor. She could not a____小题5:______ to keep warm in the winter.
Harry Potter became very s__小题6:______ with children and grown-ups in England and then t__小题7:___ the world. It was put into more than thirty-five l_____小题8:_____. After her second and third books were published, the three Harry Potter books filled the top three places on many newspapers' lists of bestsellers. Without question, Rowling's life changed g____小题9:______ and became one of the most successful w______小题10:_____writers in the world.