improving/to be improved．(need doing/to be done)

　　第三步：连接过渡成篇

　　Dear Sir or Madam，

　　My name is Li Hua. I am a student of a high school in China. I've recently bought a book from your website. However, some problems have arisen, which makes me upset. I am writing to complain about them.

　　First of all, the book I ordered reached me ten days later than expected, which brought me lots of inconvenience. What's worse, when I looked through it, I found that a few pages are missing, which makes me very disappointed. I know you are a famous book­selling website, but my experience shows that your service needs improvement. I hope you can send me another book as soon as possible.

　　I am looking forward to your early reply.

　　Yours faithfully,

　　Li Hua

　　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　What do Frankenstein, Rosie and Harry Potter have in common？More than you'd think. These well­known characters were stuck inside the imaginations of their creators until some unexpected quiet time released them.

　　On a rainy day in Switzerland almost two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft and her friends were on vacation. To amuse themselves and prevent boredom one wet afternoon, they challenged each other to a competition: Who could write the best scary story? While thinking up ideas, Mary remembered a nightmare (噩梦) she'd had. The result was the unforgettable Frankenstein, which was published in 1818 and became an immediate success.

　　Maurice Sendak used to be a sickly child and spent hours drawing what he saw outside the window. After graduating from high school, Sendak was living at home without a job and he had no idea what to do with his life. Looking out of his bedroom window, he spied Rosie, a girl who lived across the street. "She had to fight the other kids on the block for attention，" he recalls. Sendak imagined the girl into being anything she wanted to be, filling over forty sketch pads (速写簿 ) with pictures and stories about her. In time, Sendak became an author and illustrator (插图画家) of children's books and his sketches of Rosie inspired the book The Sign on Rosie's Door.

In 1990, Joanne Rowling was traveling on a train, which broke down halfway. With nothing to do, Rowling just sat and stared out of the window. Suddenly, a boy named Harry Potter walked into her mind. Once the train finally reached London, Rowling raced home to write down