2014 年秋高中英语 Module 3 Adventure in Literature and the Cinema Mark Twain One of America's Best Known and Best Loved Writers 素材 外研版必修 5 (THEME)VOICE ONE:I’m Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:Today we tell about one of America’s best-known writers, Mark Twain. We also talk about his famous book, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” (THEME)VOICE ONE:Mark Twain wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in eighteen eighty-four. Since then, the book has been published in at least sixty languages. Some people say it is the best book ever created by an American writer. American students still read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” And parents, teachers and literary experts still debate the issues discussed in the book. VOICE TWO:The writer who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in eighteen thirty-five. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississippi Ri ver. After his father died in eighteen forty-seven, young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher. Ten years later, he became a pilot on a steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi. He heard the riverboat workers call out the words “mark twain!” That was a measure for the depth of water. In eighteen sixty-one, the American Civil War put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi. So Clemens traveled west and became a reporter for newspapers in Nevada and California. VOICE ONE:Later, he wrote funny stories and called himself Mark Twain. Twain became famous for his story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in eighteen sixty-five. It tells about a jumping competition among frogs. Twain also traveled a lot and began writing books about his travels. His stories about a trip to Europe and t...
