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The idea for the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone c____________to Joanne Kathleen Rowling in 1990. It took her seven years to finish writing it. D__________those seven years she had a number of jobs. One of them was t____________ 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__________ 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__________ to keep warm in the winter.
Harry Potter became very s________ with children and grown-ups in England and then t_____ the world. It was put into more than thirty-five l__________. 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__________ and became one of the most successful w___________writers in the world.