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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain is a great American writer. His ______ are widely read by ___________ people all over the world. He was born in 1835 in Florida, a people all over the world. He was born in 1835 in Florida, a ______________of the USA. He ________ in Missouri on the Mississippi River. Before he was 13, he had fallen into the river for nine times. Luckily, he was always saved. At the age of 18, he ___________ from home. ___________, he worked as a sailor and a newspaper reporter.
Mark Twain started writing a children’s story called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1876. Its ______ is to do with the _________ of humans. However, he didn’t question the slavery (奴隶制奴隶制度) in the book and never thought of giving freedom to slaves. This __________ has been ___________ many times by later ___________.
Mark Twain liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time. One day he was going to a small town. One of his friends said that there were a lot of mosquitoes (蚊子) in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are very _______. They aren’t relatives of mine. Why will they come to visit me?”
Mark Twain’s works have _________ many writers. They are great __________of American ___________. “There was nothing before. And there has been nothing as good since,” said a famous writer.