<p></p><p><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-US">I.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-US">. Read the story and fill
in the missing sentences from the list.&nbsp;
There is one sentence which you do not need to use. \2x5=10</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: 0.95rem;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mark Twain‘s real name was
Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835 in Missouri, USA, he grew up in
Hannibal, a small town on the Mississippi River. 1) [[1]] his father died in
1847, Samuel left school to start&nbsp; work
as a printer. 2) [[2]] , he began work on the Mississippi riverboats, and became a
riverboat pilot.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US">3) [[3]] began in 1861,
the&nbsp; riverboats&nbsp; stopped running, and Clemens tried many
different jobs. He also started writing humorous stories for various
newspapers, and 4) [[4]] he was well known as a writer. He wrote his first major
book in 1869, and got married a year later. He published <i>Tom Sawyer</i> in1876 and <i>Huckleberry
Finn</i> in1884. He was still famous and very popular, both in the USA and
Europe at the time of his death in 1910. </span></p>

<p><i><span lang="EN-US">Huckleberry
Finn</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is
set in about 1845-1850, and begins in a small town just like Hannibal. In other
words, Mark Twain was writing about the time and place of his own childhood.
Many of the characters and event in the story are taken from his boyhood and
his life 5) [[5]]&nbsp; a riverboat pilot.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p><br><p></p>