必背句型
____________，the author’s name，Mark Twain，is itself an invention，or “pen name”．
首先，作者的名字，马克·吐温，本身就是创造的，或者说是“笔名”。
He left school early，and as an adolescent，________________________ in South America，________ from his home in Hannibal，Missouri，for New Orleans.
他很早离开学校，青少年的时候，怀着到南美去发财的决心，从密苏里州的汉尼拔出发去新奥尔良。
He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket ________________ that there were no boats for South America.
他身无分文地到达新奥尔良时，却发现那里没有开往南美洲的船了。
Twain’s vivid and often amusing descriptions of life on the river quickly ________________，and ________________________ he still enjoys today as one of America’s greatest writers.
吐温对河上生活生动形象的描写很快受到欢迎，这也确立了今天他仍然享有美国最伟大的作家之一的美誉的地位。