Unit 2 Section 1 Starting out&Understanding ideas—Prereading-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册（外研版2019）

Section 1　Starting out&Understanding ideas—Prereading 原|文|诵|读 We Regret to Inform You... 1. “We regret to ① you...” These are the words that every writer ② receiving, but words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher ③ and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years ④ your weekends and free time to write your life's work, yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success ⑤ happens ⑥， but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced ⑦. 2.⑧ J. K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it meant she now ⑨ her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received comments from publishers along the lines of “too difficult for children”， “too long”， “Children would not be interested in it”. ⑩， she ⑪. “I wasn't going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen，” she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually ⑫ print 500 copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global success, with over 400 million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages⑬. 3．All too often writers of great works have had to face ⑭ along with rejection. J. D. Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later ⑮ get his works published. “We feel that we don't know the central character well enough” was the criticism he received on his ⑯ for The Catcher in the ⑰. Despite rejections from several publishers, J. D. Salinger ⑱ give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually published, t