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研究生综合英语Multiple English for Postgraduates 高级英语阅读 吴德本　张万义 Unit 1 Advice to YouthMark Twain About the author Mark Twain was the pseudonym of the American humorist and writer—Samuel Langhorne Clemens born in Missouri, Florida in 1835. The phrase, meaning “two fathoms deep”, was employed in making soundings on the Mississippi river boats. He was brought up in a small town of Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He was twelve when his father died and he had About the author to leave school. He was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. This gave him a wide knowledge of humanity. With the publication of his frontier tale, “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain became nationally famous. About the author He was regarded as “ A mirror of America”, as an America’s most famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books and novels, among his well-known works, they are The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(1865卡拉韦拉斯县驰名的跳蛙), Sacramento Union(1866萨克拉门托联合报), The Innocents Abroad(傻子国外旅行记1869), The Gilded Age (镀金时代1873), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(汤姆.索亚历险记1876), About the author The Prince and the Pauper(王子与贫儿1882), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(哈克贝利.费恩历险记1984), One Million-Pound Note(1893百万英镑) and so on. Cultural notes A Gatling gun: in 19th century an American inventor—Richard J. Gatling invented a multiple-pipe rifle. Waterloo: a town in Brabant, central Belgium, near the site of a decisive defeat of Napoleon by Wellington and Blucher in 1815, population 15,000. Mark Twain Mark Twain’s House Pre-reading task In the text, Mark Twain showed youth six pieces of advice. Suppose you were Mark Twain, what kinds of advice would you show young people? Please discuss it in pairs or groups. Language study 1. in the nature of (line 3) : having the qualities of …有…的特征, 属于…的性质 His speec