听力原文: No author in American literature is better .known or more loved than Samuel Lang
It was during the Civil War that Mark Twain's life as a writer started. At that time he was working as a newspaperman in Nevada and California. His short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was an immediate success and his new career began.
In 1870, Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. He had fallen in love with her picture even before he met her. According to his own story, his wife had a real influence on Twain's later books.
Mark Twain was also a very successful lecturer. His travels around the country giving talks on a variety of subjects helped make him famous and increased the sale of his books.
The pen name Mark Twain came from_____
A.his father's experience as a boatman
B.his friends on the bank of the Mississippi River
C.the call of the boatmen on the Mississippi River
D.the boat on the Mississippi River