Joanne Rowling was born in Bristol in England. Joanne always wanted to
write and she wrote her 1_____(第一个故事) when she was only five or six. At
school her favorite subject was English and she used to make up stories 2_____
(和她的朋友们). When she left school, she went to university and studied
French. While there she studied 3_____(在巴黎) for a year, and after leaving
university, she had many different jobs. However, most of all, she 4_____(想) to
write! One day, during a long train journey, she got the idea of writing about a
boy who is a wizard(男巫), but doesn't know it.
　　In 1992, she 5_____(离开) England to go to Portugal to teach English.
While she was there she got married to a Portuguese journalist and she had a
daughter, Jessica. The marriage ended in divorce and Joanne 6_____(回去) to
live in Edinburgh in Scotland. She had very little money and she lived 7_____
(在一个很小的房子里), which was often cold. She could not afford the heating
(供热). It was there that she 8_____(写完了)her first book about Harry Potter, a
young boy who is a wizard. At first, no one wanted to publish(出版) it. Then,
one day, in 1997, she found a publisher. She was very excited and happy!
　　Much to her surprise, her book was 9_____(一个巨大的成功)! It sold in
millions! It won many prizes! It made Joanne very rich and it made her very
famous. Everybody wanted to read about Harry Potter. Adults and children now
read her books. Her stories have been put into many languages, and they can now
be read 10_____(在全世界). Her first several novels have been made into films.
Joanne Rowling has written more books about Harry Potter and all of them have
sold millions of copies. Some of these later books are also being made into
films.