HE INSISTED ON COMPLAINING ___________ THE BOSS ___________ THE BAD...

5. He insisted on complaining ___________ the boss ___________ the bad manner of

the salesgirl.

PART THREE: READING COMPREHENSION

I. Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each question.

Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the space given on the right. (5

pts)

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Longhorn Clemens (1835 - 1910),

the American famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding

autobiographical works, travel books, and novels. The first thirty-six years of

Clemens' life gave him experiences - as a boy in a little town in Missouri, as a

steamboat pilot, as a reporter on the far western frontier, and as a traveler

abroad - which he thereafter used as materials for his best and most successful

writings.

He was born on November 30th, 1835. Hannibal was the town of Clemens'

boyhood, destined to figure importantly in several of his finest books. The

steamboats which Clemens and his gang of boyhood friends watched wheeling

past or docking at the wharf were endlessly fascinating. So, too, were the

steamboat men and the townspeople, many of whom were prototypes of

characters in Mark Twain's books. The river and the woods around the town were

wonderful places for the boys to play. In the summer, Samuel ordinarily paid a

vacation visit to the farm of his uncle John Quarles, near Florida. Some of his

happiest and most vivid memories were to be of his play around Hannibal and of

his visit to the farm.

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876) was one of Twain's best books,

certainly his best for juvenile audience. The setting was St. Petersburg. The

characters were the grownups and the children of the town in the 1830s. The

happy endings endear the book to children; the lifelike picture of the boy, Tom

Sawyer, and his friends is enjoyed by many people, both young and old.