Lori Anne seems content to take great delight 8.__________ the feeling of a job well done. As she told a reporter, “It's hard to put into words really…but at least I felt great.”

　　Ⅲ.阅读理解

　　Amanda Hocking's parents divorced when she was young. Money was tight and there was no cable TV at home. “So I read a lot and took up writing as a child，” she recalled. The first novel Dreams I Can't Remember was written when she was 17. She sent it to several publishers, from whom she got rejection letters. Yet she would not give up. She wrote one after another. By April, 2010, she had written 17 unpublished novels.

　　Having spent years fruitlessly trying to interest traditional publishers in her work, Amanda Hocking was penniless and frustrated. To make matters worse, an exhibition about Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, was coming to Chicago later that year, but she couldn't afford to make the trip!

　　Then an idea occurred to her. She decided to upload one of her unpublished novels to Amazon's online bookstore. There, people could download it to their e­readers for $0.99. With six months to go before the Muppets exhibition opened, she would surely make $300 needed for the desired journey to Chicago.

　　April 15 2010 should be noted by historians. On that day, Hocking made her book available to Kindle readers on Amazon's website in her bid to raise the cash for the Muppets trip.

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