【2017年整理】现代与大学英语(精读)4lesson15.pptVIP

Lesson 15 The Damned Human Race Mark Twain;Pre-class work: What do you know about Mark Twain? Can you name some books he wrote?;;;About the author: Mark Twain (1835---1910) was born Samuel Langhorne Clements in Florida, Missouri, but lived as a child in Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. He took the pen name Mark Twain from the call of the pilots on the river steamers, which indicated that the water was twelve feet deep, a safe depth for a steamer.During his early years, he worked as a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, printer, and gold prospector. But then he turne