新课标Book3 Unit3 课文语法填空

新课标Book3 Unit3 课文语法填空

Mark Twain, an American renowned writer and speaker, spent his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and three of his most famous books describe people _1__________ this great river. As this author loved the river so much _2________ even his pen name comes from the river. Being poor, Twain dropped school_3_________the age of twelve looking for work. Over the next two decades he worked _4______ a printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier, a gold miner, a businessman and _5_______ newspaper reporter to support the family. _6______ was said that his first successful story was about a jumping frog contest. And his works became extremely famous for its description of common people and the way they talked, especially_7____ his humor. As a result, he became very rich from his works. _8_____________, the last years of his life was filled with sad events，the deaths of his wife and children, the _9__________(lonely) and the loss of much money. For this, his writings lost most of its humor and became sad like him. Yet he is still regarded _10_______one of the best known writers in the modern world.

Book3 Unit3 课文语法填空

It was the summer of 1930, and Henry Adams, an American businessman, was_1_______luck. He was rescued at sea by a British ship that takes him to London_2_________he find himself without money, friends an d hope of a good job. He was lost and alone in London. He didn’t know_3_________to do. _4________ (walk) down the street, he heard someone_5______ (call) him. Then he came in and_6___________ (lead) to two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver, _7______made a secret bet and gave him a letter in which there was _8______ one-million-pound bank note. He_9___________ (ask) to open the letter until two o’clock in the af ternoon. Roderick believes that a man can’t survive in the city for a month with only a million p ound bank note in his possession _10_________Oliver believes he can.

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