A simple method for the excitation of fundamental whispering-gallery modes in a BK7 glass microsphere by a side-polished fiber half-block coupler is demonstrated. The coupler is made of the single-mode fiber (Corning SMF-28) which has an effective refractive index of 1.4682 @1550nm. The radius and refractive index of the microsphere equal to 150± 1.5 um and 1.500065 @1550 nm, respectively. The resonant modes are identified from the transmission spectrum, which indicates that the quality factor of 17000, free spectral range of 1.7 nm and coupling efficiency of 10% are obtained.