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C. READING

I. Choose the correct answers to complete the passage.

No writer in American literature is (1) __________ or more loved than Samuel Longhorn Clements. Born in Missouri in 1835, he grew (2) __________ on the bank of the Mississippi river and later adopted the pen name Mark Twain. The (3) __________ environment inspired the two novels which made him famous, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi", told of his adventures on the river boats of that period.
Mark Twain's life as a writer started during the Civil War. At that time he (4) __________ as a newspaper man in Nevada and California. His short story "The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was an immediate (5) __________ and his new career began.