J.K Rowling is the writer of the Harry Potter series, the most popular books.

    J.K. Rowling was born in Bristol in 1965. She has one sister 1 is two years younger than her. Both girls loved listening to bedtime 2 . They loved stories about the magical (有魔力的) world. Rowling 3her first story, called rabbit at the age of six.

    4 she graduated from the university, Rowling worked in London. During that time, on a long train trip in the summer of 1990, the idea of a 5 who has magic but doesn't know it himself came to6 . In 1992, Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her daughter, Jessica, and7much time finishing the first Harry Potter book for young8. It came out in 1997. To her 9 , the book was very successful. The film came out in 2001. Now the Harry Potter series is 10with people of all ages.

    Why is the series so successful? Many other magic stories11place in faraway lands in the past or future times,12Harry lives in modern England. He 's also a very normal boy. When other 13 read the story about Harry, they can 14 being like him.

    J.K. Rowling is very happy with her success. She says she will go on 15 children's books.

    John was driving through a small country town, feeling quite lost and 1. He was happy when he saw a small 2 coming up on the right side of the road. John quickly 3 his car, and walked inside the restaurant.

    John saw a blackboard with a 4 written on it. It said, "Today's Special (特价菜): Vegetable Soup with Fried Chicken and Roast Potatoes."

    "Wow, that sounds pretty good!" John thought to 5. He decided that he would try this special.

    "I'll take the special," John said to the waiter when he came over to 6 John's order. But a few minutes after receiving his order, John called the waiter 7 to his table. He was 8.

    "Is this the special? It says vegetable soup, but there are no 9 in this soup at all! It also says fried chicken, but the chicken isn't 10. And it says roast potatoes, but these potatoes aren't toasted—they've been boiled. What is going on here?"

    The waiter was not used to 11 people from the city. He wasn't quite sure what to say to this angry customer. But he finally found a way to answer the man. "My good man," the waiter said while looking down at John over his glasses, "that is the reason why it is so 12!"

    Life is not easy, but I'd like to say, "When anything happens, believe in yourself."

    When I was young, I was 1  shy that I couldn't talk to anyone. My classmates often 2 me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened. It changed my life. It was an English speech contest. It meant I had to 3 in front of all the teachers and students in my school!

    "Come on, Dear. Believe in yourself. You are sure to 4  ." Then, my mother helped me 5 the topic—Believe in yourself. I practiced very hard. 6 my mother's great love, I won the first prize in the contest. I could 7 believe my ears. I heard the 8 from the teachers and students. "Congratulations!", my mother said to me 9.

    Since then, everything has changed for  10 . When I do anything, I try to tell myself to have confidence(自信).

    A lady and her husband in usual clothes walked into the president of Harvard's outer office. "We want to see the president," the lady said softly. Looking at the usual couple, the secretary said, "He'll be busy all day."" We'll wait," the lady replied.

    For hours, the secretary did nothing for them, hoping that they would finally go away. They didn't. "Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they'll leave," the secretary finally told the president.

    The president looked down at the couple. The lady told him, "We had a son that had studied in Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. But he was accidentally killed. And my husband and I would like to build something for him in Harvard. "Madam," the president said angrily, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died."

    "Oh, no," the lady explained quickly, "we mean we would give a building to Harvard." The president looked at their usual clothes, and then said, "A building! Do you know how much a building costs? It took us over seven and a half million dollars to build Harvard."

    The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university?" Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they built a university with their name—a memorial（纪念）to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

    You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.