English Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院
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				Lesson 1     Text  ( Page 6)
			His first book was “Five Weeks in a Balloon.” Fifteen publishers looked at it, sniffed and sent it back. (48) In a rage, Jules flung it into the fire. (49) His wife rescued it and made him promise he would try once more. So Jules tucked the slightly charred manuscript under his arm and went around (50) to show it to Pierre Hetzel.         The publisher read the book through as the fidgeting young author waited. (51) Hetzel said he would publish it if Jules would rewrite it in the form of a novel.         In two weeks Jules was back. "Five Weeks in a Balloon“ became a best seller, was translated into every civilized language. In 1862, at the age of thirty-four, its author was famous and a success.         His next book, "Voyage to the Centre of the Earth," started his Characters off (52) down the crater of a volcano in Iceland. They went through (53) a thousand adventures and finally came sliding out on a lava stream in Italy.         Perhaps the best known of Verne's books is “ Around the World in 80 Days." Serialized in "Lc Temps", of Paris, the progress of its hero aroused so much interest that New York and London correspondents sent cables daily to their newspapers reporting the imaginary Phileas Fogg's whereabouts.(54)