Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–Е частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–6. Одна из частей в списке 1–6 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу. В процессе работы над заданием обратите внимание на логические и грамматические связи между отсутствующими частями и текстом. Убедитесь, что смысл восстановленного предложения полностью продолжает предыдущие и соответствует последующим предложениям. Mark Twain, who lived from 1835 to 1910, is one of America's most famous authors. He wrote many books, (A) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain's own life was interesting enough to be a book.
Twain was born in the state of Missouri, near the Mississippi River. He (B) . His father died when he was twelve, so he had to leave school. While he was still a boy, he worked as a riverboat pilot. He steered boats up and down the long Mississippi River.
The Civil War, which started in 1861, made (C) . Twain then went west to Nevada. There he worked on a newspaper. In 1864 he went to California to find gold. Twain did not have much luck as a gold miner. He left California to travel in Europe. Twain wrote a book (D) .
But the most important influence on Twain and his books had the Mississippi River. When Twain finally settled down, he lived in a house with a porch that looked like the deck of a riverboat. Huckleberry Finn, Twain's greatest book, is about the adventures of a boy on the Mississippi River. Another of Twain's books is called Life on the Mississippi.
In fact, even the name Mark Twain comes from the Mississippi. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. On the river (E) the boatmen shout "Mark twain!" This meant the water was twelve feet deep. When Samuel Clemens began to write he chose for himself the name Mark Twain.
1) about his trips around Europe
2) traveling on the Mississippi impossible
3) including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4) came from a poor family
5) Samuel Clemens often heard
6) the 1936 U.S. Olympic team
