高二英语Unit10 At the shop知识精讲 人教版.docVIP

高二英语Unit10 At the shop知识精讲 人教版 一. 本周教学内容： Unit 10 At the shop Part 1 Backgroud knowledge： Mark Twain 不知道美国的马克·吐温正如不知道中国的鲁迅一样，你想了解更多吗？请看—— Samuel Langhorne Clemens (pen name Mark Twain) was born on November 30 , 1835 in Florida , Missouri . Twain is considered the greatest humorist of the 19th century American literature . His novels and stories about the Mississippi River：The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（《汤姆·索亚历险记》）（1876）and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》）（1894）are still popular with modern readers . In 1839 the Clemens family moved to Hannibal , Missouri , on the Mississippi River where young Sam experienced the excitement and colorful sights of the waterfront . Like many authors of his day he had little formal education . His education came from the print shops and newspaper offices where he worked as a youth . In 1853 Clemens left Hannibal with a yearning （渴望）to travel . On a trip to New Orleans he persuaded a riverboat pilot to teach him his skill . By the spring of 1859 Clemens was a licensed riverboat pilot . At the outbreak of the American Civil War （1861）Clemens chose not to get involved and moved to Carson City , Nevada . After an unsuccessful attempt at gold and silver mining he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virginia City , Nevada . He first wrote under the pen name “Mark Twain”（meaning“two fathoms（英寻）”in riverboat - talk）in 1863 . “Twain”wrote his first popular story , The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County（《卡拉维拉县有名的跳蛙》）in 1865 . He continued to travel as a correspondent for various newspapers , and in 1869 his travel letters from Europe were collected into the popular book , The Innocents Abroad（《傻子国外旅行记》）. Encouraged by his success Twain married Olivia Langdon and settled down in Hartford , Connecticut to his most productive years as a writer . Between . 1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels including his Mississippi River books as well as The Prince and the Pauper（《王子与贫儿》）（1882）. As Twain’s lif