题目内容
完形填空(Cloze Test)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Mark Twain, ___1___ quite a lot, often ___2___ circumstances, usually financial circumstances(经济状况)forced him to. He was born in Floridian Missouri in 1835, an d___3___ to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about ___4___ old. Most people think he as born in Hannibal, but that isn't true. After his father ___5___ when he was about twelve, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left. ___6___ he could earn more money. He worked for a while as a typesetter ___7___ various newspapers, and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi.
Twain loved this job, and many of his books show it. The river job ___8___ however, because of the outbreak of the civil war. Twain was in the federate army for just two weeks, and then he and his whole company(同伴)went west, ___9___ from the war and the army.
In Nevada in California, Twain prospected(寻找)for sister and gold ___10___ luck, but did succeed as a writer. ___11___ that happened, Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and ___12___ enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much ___13___ .
Somehow his travel, ever when forced, inspired his writings. ___14___ many other popular writers, Twain derived(得到)much of the materials for his writing ___15___ the wealth and diversity(多样性)of his own experience.
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