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Mark Twain was a pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November30, 1835, in
a small town in Florida, the USA. He
1 a few naughty boys who later
2 in his stories. At the age
of 12, his father died, and he began to work, first as a printer, then on a river boat. Those years on the
boat went into his book "Life
3 the Mississipi. (密西西比河)"
4 the Civil War (国内战争) he worked as a reporter and used Mark Twain as his pen name. The
stories he wrote in this period
5 him famous and popular. He made a lot of money by writing, lecturing
and running
6 publishing house. But he spent all of it on high living and
7 business.
Mark Twain
8 as a "funny man". But in fact he took a serious view of life. Many sad things
happened in his own life. All his
9 helped to shape (形成) his stories
10 showed the dark side of
society. He died as an old man of 75 in 1910.
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