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[单项选择]Mark Twain told the friend he couldn't buy a ticket for him because ______.
A. he did not have enough money
B. his money was also lost
C. he wanted to play a joke on him
D. he wanted the friend to buy a ticket himself
[单项选择]Mark Twain said in a loud voice because ______.
A. he wanted his friend to know he had bought a ticket for him
B. he wanted to make himself heard by everyone in the compartment
C. the conductor was standing far away from him
D. the conductor had some trouble in hearing
[单项选择]Mark Twain wanted to sleep because _________.
[单项选择]Mark Twain didn't get off at Dijon because_________.
A. the conductor dared not wake him up
B. he changed his mind
C. the conduct made a big mistake
[单项选择]Because of bribery, he was sentenced to death and was ______ political right all his life.
A. deprived his
B. deprived him of his
C. deprived of his
D. deprived
[单项选择]Mr. Dodds never forgot Mark's birthdays.
[单项选择]The first writing which made Mark Twain nationally famous was
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
B. [ B] Life on the Mississippi.
C. The Gilded Age and Innocents Abroad.
D. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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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. The fraternal twins are much more valued by researchers.
B. Two kinds of twins are often been compared in research.
C. Identical twins are more likely to be addicted to smoking.
D. Fraternal twins are more genetically similar than identical twins.
[单项选择]What can we infer from Mark Twain's words
A. There are some terrible things in his life.
B. The past is terrible lo be reminded of.
C. Some terrible things may actually happen in his life.
D. Let bygones be bygones.
[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