Read the given paragraphs. Edit the paragraphs. Rewrite the correct paragraphs.

A. Every day, my wife and I goes to the park to walk our dog, King. He really enjoy the walk that we
take because, since my wife and I work, he are alone all day long. Sometimes, we meets our friend
Wendy in the park. She dont have a dog, but she have a cat at home. Each one of us like to talk
about animals.

B. According to legend, Santa Claus is a fat old man who visits every house on our planet in about
eight hours on one of the coldest nights of the year. Santa, as everybody knows, stop for a glass of
milk and a cookie at each house along the route. He prefer to work unnoticed, so he wears
luminous red suit and travels with a pack of bell-jangling reindeer. For reasons that most people
does not understand, this jolly old man enters each house not by the front door but through the
chimney (whether you has a chimney or not). He customarily gives generously to children in
wealthy families, and he usually remind poorer children that it's the thought that counts. Santa
Claus is one of the earliest beliefs that parents try to instill in their children. After this absurdity,
it's a wonder that any child ever believe in anything again.

C. J. K. Rowling was on a train bound for London, England, in 1990 when the idea for a book about
a boy wizard come to her. A decade later, Rowling's books about the magical adventures of young
Harry Potter is a publishing sensations, dominating bestseller lists by attracting millions of fan
wideworld among children and adults like.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is born on July 31, 1965, in Chipping Sodbury, a small town in
southern England. Rowling knewn she wanted to be a writer as early as age six, when she wrote her
first story. She attended the University of Exeter in England. Majoring in French at the urging of her
parents, who hope she would become an interpreter or translator. After graduating in the late
1980s, Rowling works in various jobs while attempting to wrote fiction for adults.
She have moved to Portugal, where she taught English. While there, she married a Portuguese
journalists, and they had a daughter in 1993. During this time she began writing a new book.
About an orphan boy who lives with his mean-spirited aunt and uncle and does not know that he is
actually a wizard with magic powers.
By 1995 Rowling were divorced, and she moving to Edinburgh, Scotland. Unable to pay for
childcare, Rowling went on public assistance and continued writing her book, often jotting down
passages in cafes while her daughter sleeps at her side. She submit the finish manuscript to a

number of leading publishers in Britain, but it was rejected. Finally, Bloomsbury Publishing
accepted it, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released in Britain in June 1997.
The story of Harry Potter, who learns of his magic abilities at age 11 and then attends the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, was an instant critical and comercial sucess. It becames a
number-one bestseller in both the children's and adult markets. The book won the British Book
Awards Children's Book of the Year honor and the prestigious Smarties prize for the best children's
book published in the United Kingdom for the 9 to 11 age bracket.
The book find similar sucess when it was published in the United States in October 1998 as
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Rowling follow up the first book with Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets, published in Britain in 1998 and a year later in the United States. This book
meet with even greater acclaimed and won the same two prizes an unprecedented second straightly
time. Such rare success in the world of children's books earned. Rowling comparisons to famed
British authors Roald Dahl and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, published in July 1999 in Britain and two months
later in America, continue the run. On September 26, 1999, Rowling's three Harry Potter books
holded the top three spots on the prestigious New York Times bestseller list for fictionthe first
time an author have had the three top bestsellers simultaneously.
More than 8 million Harry Potter books has been sold in the United States alone, and Rowling's
work have been translated into nearly 30 languages. The movie rights to the series has already been
bought by Warner Brothers. Rowling have said she plans to write a total of seven Harry Potter
books. with the character a year older in each one.
The books has created a backlash from some conservative groups, such as the Virginia-based
Family Friendly Libraries, which argues that the books glorify black magic and witchcraft and is
inappropriate for children. In a number of publicized cases around the United States, parents asked
that the books be remove from school libraries or that their children be excuse from the classroom
when a Harry Potter book was read or discuss. Rowling and her supporters has responded by
arguing that much of classic children's literature has to do with magic and wizards. Examples
include traditional fairy tales and famous books such as American writer L. Frank Baum's The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
Source: Encarta Yearbook, November 1999.
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