[单项选择]Mark Twain is one of the best American creative writers.
A. productive
B. inventive
C. fanciful
D. ingenious

[单项选择]Mark Twain is one of the best American creative writers.
A. productive
B. inventive
C. fanciful
D. ingenious

[单项选择]Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his

[单项选择]One day Mark Twain went to ______.


A. see a film
B. see a friend
C. see some writers

[单项选择]______is not one of Mark Twain's works.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Portrait of a Lady

[单项选择]Where did the name Mark Twain come from
A. It came from a safe passage.
B. It came from a term used by the boatmen.
C. It came from his boyhood.
D. It came from his measuring tool.

[单项选择]The first writing which made Mark Twain nationally famous was [A] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [ B] Life on the Mississippi. [C] The Gilded Age and Innocents Abroad. [D] The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

[单项选择]While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.
A. William Howells
B. Henry James
C. Bret Harte
D. Hamlin Garland

[单项选择]Mark Twain usually forgot something because he ______.


A. was ill
B. was very busy
C. couldn’t remember anything

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Text 1
Mark Twain once observed that giving up smoking is easy. He knew, because he’d done it hundreds of times himself, Giving up for ever is a trifle more difficult, apparently, and it is well known that it is much more difficult for some people than for others. Why is this so
Few doctors believe any longer that it is simply a question of will power. And for those people that continue to view addicts as merely "weak", recent genetic research may force a rethink. A study conducted by Jacqueline Vink, of the Free University of Amsterdam, used a database called the Netherlands Twin Register to analyse the smoking habits of twins. Her results suggest that an individual’s degree of nicotine dependence, and even the number of cigarettes he smokes per day, are strongly genetically influenced.
The Netherlands Twin Register is a voluntary database that is prized by geneticists because they allow the comparison of identical twins (who
A. it may have negative effects on related studies.
B. it is unreliable so far.
C. it may provide an excuse for nicotine addicts.
D. it could undermine the anti-smoking movement.

[单项选择]Mark Twain’s works are characterized by the following except ______.


A. sense of humor
B. egotism
C. jokes
D. tall tales