IV. Fill in each of the blanks with ONE appropriate word. (10 marks)
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Everyone loves Harry Potter! He is one of the most (1) _________ characters in the world. His creator, J.K. Rowling, is now a successful writer, but life was not always easy for her. (2) ______ in 1965, Rowling grew up in a small town in England. She played in the surrounding fields, imagining that they were (3) _____ of magic. Misfortune hit when Rowling was 15. Her mother became ill and died several years (4) _______. Rowling had a baby and then her marriage (5) ________ up. She became deeply depressed. Harry Potter saved her. While sitting on a train in 1990, Rowling got the (6) _________ for Harry. "All at once, the idea for Harry just (7) ________ in my head… I have never been so excited." Unemployed and poor, Rowling started writing. She worked extremely (8) _________ , writing day after day in a cafe, with her baby next to her. In 1996, when she tried to sell her first Harry Potter story, twelve publishers (9) ________ it. Then she finally received good news - the thirteenth publisher had accepted it! "I felt so happy," Rowling said, "that it was going to be a real book on the shelf of a (10) _________."
1. famous
2. before
3. playing
4. later
5. Luckily
6. idea
7. appeared
8. hard
9. had
10. bookstore
1.famous
2.born
3.full
4.after ( hoặc later)
5.broke
6.idea
7.appeared
8.hard
9.refused
10.bookstore (store thì hơi chung quá, mà đề cho mình dữ liệu để khẳng định là trong chính xác là bookstore rồi nên viết như trên cho hợp lý nhất có thể)
