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1、大学英语六级阅读理解精炼篇密西西比河上的舵手含答案资料仅供参考6 月大学英语六级阅读理解精炼50 篇 36 密西西比河上的舵手 (含答案 )英语六级阅读理解精炼第36 篇，练习密西西比河上的舵手，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。036. better known as mark twain1the remarkable man went to a log-cabin school until he was twelve years old. that was the end of his formal education. in spite o
2、f this, he became the most famous literary figure of his generation .mark twain was born in a small missouri village near the mississippi river2 in 1835. at that time, andrew jackson3 was资料仅供参考the president of the country. abraham lincoln was still a young farm laborer in illinois. the first railroa
3、d had been built seven years before. the industrialrevolution was at hand. 4 the economic collapse of american prosperity, called the panic of 1837, still lay ahead. this was also the literary period later calledthe “new england renaissance”fact, he was not expected to live throughthe first winter.
4、but with his mother tender care , he managed to survive. he had been born in a tiny two-room cabin.s资料仅供参考eight people lived together there . he had four brothers and sisters. a slave girl lived with them too.as a boy, mark twain caused much trouble for his parents. he used to play practical jokes o
5、n all of his friends andneighbors. the nature of his jokes often led to violence . he hated to go to school, and he constantly ran away fromhome. he always went in the direction of the nearby mississippi. he was fascinatedby that mighty river. he liked to sit on the bank of the river for hours at a
6、time and just gaze at the mysterious islands资料仅供参考and the passing boats and rafts. he was nearly drowned nine different times. he learned many things about the river during those days. he learned all aboutits history and the unusual people who rode up and down5 it. he never forgot those scenes and t
7、hose people. he later made them part of the history of america in his books tom sawyer and huckleberry finn6.阅读自测 . this is the summary of the passage. try to fill in the blanks with proper words :资料仅供参考mark twain was born in a small villagenear the _river in 1835. he wasnot a healthy baby, so he wa
8、s not expected to live _ the firstwinter. thanks to his mothers_care, he managed to survive . hehas been born in a tiny two-room_ . _people lived togetherthere. he had _brothers andsisters and a girl live with them too.when he was a boy, he used to play_jokes on his friends andneighbors. he hated to go to school but was _ by the mighty river. he learned all about its history and