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【題目】綜合填空

Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, of a Virginian family. He was 【1】 b______ up in Hannibal, Missouri. At the【2】 a_____ of 12,his father died ,he became a printer .To make a 【3】l______, he wrote for his brother's newspaper. He later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot though he was very 【4】y______.

No one knew the 【5】e_____ date when Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as a reporter. He visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The Sacramento Union, publishing letters on his trip and giving lectures. He set out on a world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which made him famous 【6】a______ the world.

The success as a writer made him rich enough to 【7】m_____ the beautiful girl Olivia Langdon in 1870. They moved next year to Hartford. Twain continued to lecture in the United States and England. Between 1876 and 1884 he published several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince And The Pauper (1881).He became a 【8】s______ writer.

In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour. Twain toured New Zealand, Australia, India, and South Africa. He wrote many 【9】w______ such as The Tragedy Of Pudd'head Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the travel book Following The Equator (1897).They were translated into many 【10】l______ later.

He died on April 21, 1910

Answer 1

【答案】

【小題1】brought

【小題2】age

【小題3】living

【小題4】young

【小題5】exact

【小題6】around

【小題7】marry

【小題8】successful

【小題9】works

【小題10】languages

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了馬克·吐溫的生平事跡，12歲的時(shí)候，父親去世了，他成了一名印刷工人，自己做過船工，給報(bào)社寫過稿子，后來他成了一名作家，他的作品被翻譯成許多鐘語言。

【小題1】brought句意：他被撫養(yǎng)在密蘇里州的漢尼拔。這里是短語bring up撫養(yǎng)，句子的主語與動詞之間是被動關(guān)系，故答案為：brought。

【小題2】age句意：12歲的時(shí)候，父親去世了，他成了一名印刷工人。短語at the age of 12在12歲的時(shí)候，故答案為：age。

【小題3】living句意：為了謀生，他給他哥哥的報(bào)社寫稿子。短語make a living 謀生。故答案為：living。

【小題4】young句意：盡管他很年輕，他做為一名認(rèn)可的密西西比河的船員。though引導(dǎo)的是讓步狀語從句。was是系動詞，后跟形容詞，故答案為：young。

【小題5】exact句意：沒有人知道馬克·吐溫去加利福尼亞的確切時(shí)間。這里date是名詞，所以用形容詞來修飾，故答案為：exact。

【小題6】around句意：他的經(jīng)歷被收入到《傻子出國記》，這使他在全世界很出名。短語around the world全世界，故答案為：around。

【小題7】marry句意：作為一名作家他非常富有在1870年與倫敦的Olivia結(jié)婚了。enough to +動詞原形故答案為：marry。

【小題8】successful句意：他成了一名成功的作家�？崭窈笫敲�詞，所以應(yīng)該用形容詞，故答案為：successful。

【小題9】works句意：他寫了許多作品。因?yàn)榍懊嬗衜any，所以應(yīng)該用復(fù)數(shù)形式，故答案為：works。

【小題10】languages句意：后來它們被翻譯成許多語言�？崭袂坝衜any，所以用名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式，故答案為：languages。