四、根据短文意思和首字母提示,写出一个完整正确的单词。(2025·江苏南通启东长江中学期中改编)
J. K. Rowling is famous around the world for being the
writer
1 of Harry Potter. She was born in the UK in 1965. When she was young, her aunt gave her a book by Jessica Mitford. Rowling
fell
2 in love with it and dreamed of becoming a writer one day.
Years later, while she was sitting on a train, she had the idea for Harry Potter. She soon started writing.
Unluckily
3, she became a single mother and was later out of a job. Life was
hard
4 but she didn't give up writing. She even wrote in a café while her baby was
asleep
5 by her side.
When Rowling took her first Harry Potter book to
publishers
6, several publishers refused it. They thought no people would like the story. Finally, the publisher Bloomsbury gave a hand. They made Rowling change her name to "J. K. Rowling"
instead
7 of using her real name "Joanne Rowling", because they thought boys wouldn't read the book if they found it was written by a woman.
Up to now, the Harry Potter books have been sold over hundreds of millions of
copies
8, won many prizes and have been
translated
9 into over 70 languages! And J. K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire by just being a writer. She gives lots of her money to charities to help
homeless
10
children.
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writer
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fell
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Unluckily
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hard
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asleep
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publishers
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instead
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copies
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translated
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homeless