题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
北京市西城区2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末试卷(含小段音频)
It is a story every bit as moving and magical as her Harry Potter books. The 1 between J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, and Catie Hoch, a Harry Potter fan from New York, began in early 2000, some three years after the then six-year-old had developed a fast-growing childhood cancer.
Her mother, Gina Peca, had read the first three Harry Potter to Catie, who was such a fan that she would wear her Harry Potter clothes, complete with big round glasses and a red short coat, as she 2 to hospital from home.
By the end of 1999, Catie had been through several rounds of surgery and chemotherapy (化疗), losing all her hair but none of her spirit. Ms Peca was 3 that there would soon be no more Harry Potter to read.
She sent an email to the book's publishers with a 4 for J.K. Rowling, asking when the fourth book would be 5 and telling of the joy that the books had brought to Catie's life.
A few weeks later, a reply came that had Catie and her mother 6 for joy. It read, "I am working very hard on book four at the moment - on a bit that involves some new creatures Hagrid has brought along for the Care of Magical Creatures classes. This is all Top Secret, so you are 7 to tell only some close friends and your mum, but no one else....With lots of love, J.K. Rowling."
After Catie replied, Miss Rowling was back in touch: "Do you think people will mind? I seem to have 8 an awful lot of characters along the way..."
Catie's condition began to worsen. Her mother emailed Miss Rowling to tell her that Catie could no longer use her 9. A few days later, the author 10 to read abstracts to Catie from the then 11 book four.
So it happened that at home in New York, a little girl with cancer became the first person in the world to 12 the latest adventures of Harry Potter, later published as The Goblet of Fire. Catie's mother, father and two brothers sat with her, listening on speaker-phone.
When Miss Rowling came to America for a book tour, she 13 to meet her little friend.
14 time ran out. On May 18, 2000, Catie died, aged nine.
Hearing the family had started a memorial fund in Catie's name, Miss Rowling sent a letter and a check for $100,000. "…I consider myself 15 to have had contact with Catie. I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart…"
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