[外研版高中英语必修5][模块3]B5M3-Adventure-in-Literature-and-the-Cinema教程.ppt

Often the lives of writers resemble/are similar to the lives of the characters they create. Mark Twain, was no exception. To start with/At first, the authors name, Mark Twain, is itself an invention, or pen name. Mark Twain, meaning watermark two, was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water. Mark Twain led an adventurous life. He left school early, and as a youth, determined to make his fortune in South America, set off from his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for New Orleans. He wanted to take a boat to the Amazon, where/in