IT WAS CARELESS OF JACK TO LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT LOCK THE DOOR.A...

15. It was careless of Jack to leave the house without lock the door.a b c dIV. READING COMPREHENSION :A. Read the text carefully and then choose the correct answers.Mark Twain was born in Missouri in 1835 and grew up on the banks of the MississippiRiver. The river environment inspired Mark Twain to write the novels which brought him hisgreatest fame. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and“Life on the Mississippi” told of his adventures on the river boats of that period. The writershowed the characters in the novels with such sympathy and understanding that readersalways see themselves in these characters. Mark Twain protested against slavery and one ofthe main characters in the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a Negro, Jim, whois honest, brave and kind. Some bourgeois critics of that time did not like the books and saidthe novels gave a bad example for young people. After that kind of criticism, the publiclibraries took “Tom” and “Huck” off their shelves.Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “all modern American literature comes from one book byMark Twain called “Huckleberry Finn”.