Question

【題目】 Mark Twain is an American writer and speaker whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Mark Twain was his pen name, a term originally used by Misisipi River sailors to indicate(表示) the depth of water measured on the waterway.

His family was so poor that Mark Twain did not receive much teaching. His father died when he was very young. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, prose, poetry and other aspects. His representative works include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and so on.

In terms of content, his works criticize(批判) unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, express the writer's strong sense of justice(正義) and care for the ordinary people as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts and readers generally agree that humor and satire(諷刺) are the characteristics of his writing.

Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature. Most of his works have been translated into Chinese.

【1】"Mark Twain" was a name of _________.

A.a bookB.a famous American writer

C.a river in AmericaD.a large ship

【2】Why didn't Mark Twain get much education?

A.Because he wanted to learnt by himself.

B.Because his father didn't want to send him to school.

C.Because his family was very poor.

D.Because there were no school at that time.

【3】From this passage, we cannot know __________.

A.Mark Twain's real nameB.Mark Twain's representative works

C.Mark Twain's deathD.Mark Twain's writing style

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】C

【解析】

文章大意：作者通過這篇文章主要向我們介紹了馬克·吐溫的生平事跡，從童年的生活到寫作生涯都做了細致的描寫。

【1】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章“Mark Twain is an American writer and speaker whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. ” 馬克·吐溫是一位美國作家和演說家，他的真名是塞繆爾·蘭霍恩·克萊門斯�？芍�，馬克·吐溫是美國著名作家，故答案為B。

【2】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章“The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching．He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met” 他的家庭很窮，馬克·吐溫沒有受過多少教育。他父親在他很小的時候就去世了。他必須向他遇到的人學(xué)習(xí)他所能學(xué)到的一切。可知當(dāng)塞繆爾還是個孩子的時候，他沒有受過多少教育，因為這個家庭很窮；故答案為C。

【3】

理解判斷題。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，我們可以知道馬克·吐溫的真名、馬克·吐溫的代表作和馬克·吐溫的寫作風(fēng)格。無法知道馬克·吐溫之死，故答案為C。