People in America - Mark Twain

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1、I’mBarbaraKlein.BOBDOUGHTY:AndI’mBobDoughtywithPeopleinAmericainVOASpecialEnglish.TodaywetellaboutoneofAmerica’sbest-knownwriters,MarkTwain.Wealsotalkabouthisfamousbook,“TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn.”(MUSIC)BARBARAKLEIN:MarkTwainwrote“TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn”ineighteeneigh

2、ty-four.Sincethen,thebookhasbeenpublishedinatleastsixtylanguages.SomepeoplesayitisthebestbookevercreatedbyanAmericanwriter.Americanstudentsstillread“TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn.”Andparents,teachersandliteraryexpertsstilldebatetheissuesdiscussedinthebook.BOBDOUGHTY:Thewriterwhobe

3、cameMarkTwainwasbornSamuelLanghorneClemensineighteenthirty-five.HegrewupinHannibal,MissouriontheMississippiRiver.Afterhisfatherdiedineighteenforty-seven,youngSamuelwenttoworkasanassistanttoapublisher.Tenyearslater,hebecameapilotonasteamboatthatsailedontheMississippi.Heheardtheriver

4、boatworkerscalloutthewords“marktwain!”Thatwasameasureforthedepthofwater.　MarkTwainwrotethe"TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFin"in1884.Ineighteensixty-one,theAmericanCivilWarputanendtosteamboattrafficontheMississippi.SoClemenstraveledwestandbecameareporterfornewspapersinNevadaandCaliforni

5、a.BARBARAKLEIN:Later,hewrotefunnystoriesandcalledhimselfMarkTwain.Twainbecamefamousforhisstory,“TheCelebratedJumpingFrogofCalaverasCounty”ineighteensixty-five.Ittellsaboutajumpingcompetitionamongfrogs.Twainalsotraveledalotandbeganwritingbooksabouthistravels.HisstoriesaboutatriptoEu

6、ropeandtheMiddleEastwerepublishedin“TheInnocentsAbroad.”AndhisstoriesaboutlifeinthewesternUnitedStatesbecamethebookcalled“RoughingIt.”Ineighteenseventy,hemarriedOliviaLangdonandmovedtoHartford,Connecticut.Duringtheeighteeneighties,hewrotebooksforchildren,suchas“ThePrinceandthePaupe

7、r.”IttellsaboutapoorboywhotradesidentitieswithamemberofEngland’srulingfamily.Twainalsowrote“LifeontheMississippi.”Thisbookdescribeshisdaysasasteamboatpilotandhisreturntotherivertwentyyearslater.BOBDOUGHTY:MarkTwainwasalreadyasuccessfulwriterbeforehebecamefamousasapublicspeaker.Over

8、theyears,hehadinvestedalot