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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 raft?He crawled.He walked.He ran.Cultural Corner The Life of Mark TwainOften the lives of writers resemble the lives of the characters they create. Mark Twain, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was no exception. To start with, the author39。s name, Mark Twain, is itself an invention, or pen name. Twain39。s real name was Samuel Clemens. Mark Twain, which means watermark two, was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were ing into shallow water.Like Huck, Mark Twain led an adventurous life. He left school early, and as an adolescent, determined to make his fortune in South America, set off from his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for New Orleans. He wanted to take a boat to the Amazon, where he thought he could get rich quickly. He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket only to find that there were no boats for South America. Forced to change his plans, he worked for several years as a pilot on a steamboat, taking passengers up and down the Mississippi, the great river which flows from the north of the US near the Canadian border, down to the Gulf of Mexico.Later he became a journalist and began writing stories about life on the river. Twain39。s vivid and often amusing descriptions of life on the river quickly became popular, and established the reputation he still enjoys today as one of America39。s greatest writers.Grammar Read the sentences and answer the questions.Sentences to read:1. We let the raft sail down the river. 2. He agreed to go. 3. I don39。t want to board a sinking ship. 4. The frightened man started crying. 5. We heard the two men shouting.Questions you are going to answer:a. How many examples can you find of verbs followed by to (do something)? b. What structure follows the verb let? c. In which sentence is the ed form used as an adjective? d. In which positions of the sentences can you find the ing form?Complete the sentences with the correct form (ing or ed) of the verbs.1. The sight of the boat going under water was (worry). 2. Huck got (excite) when he realised there was someone on the boat. 3. The man with the gun had a (satisfy) expression on his face. 4. The man on the floor was clearly (frighten). 5. Huck and Jim had lots of (frighten) experiences on the river. 6. I didn39。t know you were (interest) in Mark Twain. 7. Yes, I find his novels very (excite). 8. Twain certainly had an unusual and (interest) life.Complete the sentences with the correct form (ing or to + infinitive) of the verbs.
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