[单项选择]He became a famous writer when he was ______ .
A. in his fifty
B. in his fifties
C. in fifty years old

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Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many famous stories and they are still told in many countries today. Mark Twain always liked to tell funny stories. He also liked to listen to funny stories and to play jokes (开玩笑) on his friends. One day, one of his friends didn’t have money and asked Mark Twain to pay for his train ticket.
"But I don’t have enough money to buy both your ticket and mine, "Mark Twain said.
The friend did not know what to do. He was very sad. "We can do this, "said Twain. "We can get on the train first and when the conductor (售票员) comes to take the tickets, you can hide (躲藏) under my seat. "
Later, however, on the train, when the conductor came to take the tickets, Mark Twain gave him two tickets—one for himself and one for his friend. Then Mark Twain said, "My friend here is a very strange man. When he travels on a train, he does not like to sit on the seat. He likes to l
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Doesn’t Say

[单项选择]He gained his （　） by printing （　） of famous writers.
A. wealth; work
B. wealths; works
C. wealths; work
D. wealth; works

[单项选择]When he became rich, he ______ his former friends.


A. broke with
B. broke down
C. broke away from
D. broke off

[单项选择]He became so hungry that he
A. went to sleep
B. ate paper
C. went to the dinner-table
D. kept out of the way

[单项选择]The book （　） by a famous writer.
A. was believed to write
B. believed to be written
C. was believed to be written
D. believe to write

[单项选择]Mother Teresa became famous for her hard work with ______ poor.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. ~

[填空题]Hans Christian Andersen was a world-famous writer, whose genius was that he put so much of ______ into the wonder of his fairy tales.

[单项选择]Rebecca became famous for ______.


A. her science program
B. her pictures and books
C. reaching the top of Mount Everest

[单项选择]John Mills became famous ______.


A. when he was 29
B. in 1997
C. in 1929 with the role of Hamlet
D. for his appearance

[单项选择]I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet’s Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration, Grey’s Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grow stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc, and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still th
A. his special talent
B. his father’s teaching and encouragement
C. his study at Harvard
D. a hidden urge within him