Mark Twain was a great American writer．His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens．He was born in the USA in 1835．In 1839，his family moved to Hannibal，Missouri，a port town on the Mississippi River．Young Samuel grew up there．（1）

B

B

   When Mark Twain was．only 11 years old，his father died． （2）

C

C

Later he worked as a steamboat pilot．During the American Civil War，he began working as a reporter． （3）

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E

In 1865，he wrote the short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of calaveras County．It was a great success and Mark Twain became a famous writer．Over the next few years he published several other popular works．In 1876，he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer，a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River．In 1884，he wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn，about Tom Sawyer's best friend Huck Finn．（4）

D

D

He earned a large amount of money from his books and became one of the best-known writers of the 19th century in the USA．Unluckily，Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments（投资） and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts．
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A

A

He was remembered as the "great American humorist of his age"，and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature"．

A．Mark Twain died of illness on 21 April，1910．
B．As a boy，he had many adventures on the river．
C．After his father's death，Mark Twain began to work for a printer．
D．It's considered to be Mark Twain's best book．
E．There he changed his name to Mark Twain and wrote a lot of stories．