A graduate of Exeter University, a teacher, and then unemployed single parent, Rowling wrote HarryPotter when" I was very low, and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would havegone stark raving mad. "But Rowling has always written books, and her first book was calledRabbit. " I was about six, and I haven't stopped scribbling since. "

　　The following is an abstract from what J. K. Rowling wrote about herself. From which we mightkeep track with the growth of the person who gave birth to the living ambition of the world, HarryPotter the Little Wizard.

　　I wrote a lot in my teens, but I never showed any of it to my friends, . .. I went to Exeter Universitystraight after school, where I studied French. This was a big mistake. I had listened too hard to myparents, who thought languages would lead to a great career as a bilingual secretary. UnfortunatelyI am one of the most disorganized people in the world and, as I later proved, the worst secretaryever.

　　When I was twenty-six I gave up on offices completely and went abroad to teach English as aforeign language. I loved teaching English, and as I worked afternoons and evenings, I had morningsfree for writing. This was particularly good news as I had now started my third novel. The new bookwas about a boy who found out he was a wizard and was sent off2 to wizard school. When I cameback from Portugal half a suitcase was full of papers covered with short stories about Harry Potter.I came to live in Edinburgh with my very small daughter, I set myself a deadline; I would finish theHarry novel before starting work as a French teacher, and try to get it published.

　　It was a year after finishing the book before a publisher bought it. The moment when I found outthat Harry would be published was one of the best of my life .

　　練習題：

　　Complete th e following sentences with the provided words and phrases : rave stark scribble sendoff nap

　　1 . He usually has a quick after lunch.

　　2 . The child all over the page.

　　3 . Have you that letter yet?

　　4 . She simply about French cooking.

　　5 . He has gone raving mad.