【推荐2】Mark Twain was     1     (bear) in Florida     2     November 30th, 1835. He was     3     (bring) up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. He is     4     (well) known for his novels set in his boyhood world on the river, such     5     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain loved the river so much     6     even his pen name is about the river. “Twain” is     7     old word for “two”. The phrase “mark twain” means that the water is two fathoms deep. The author’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was a     8     (success) writer. His works and speeches made people laugh. However, his     9     (late) life was not a happy one. Two of his daughters died. His wife died in 1904 after a long     10     (sick). Some critics think Mark Twain’s later works were more serious because of that.

A crater (环形山) on Mercury sat quietly for millions of years.,     1    (surprise), it acquired a name — Li Qingzhao, a Chinese female poet. The International Astronomical Union named the first group of craters on the planet after 310 famous writers and artists in human history, Li     2    (include). What did she do to deserve such    3    honor? Compared with other male poets in China,     4     have left hundreds or even thousands of poems, she has only eighty-seven.    5    , her artistic creativity in her surviving works has earned her a permanent place in the Chinese literary circle.

She grew up in a relatively relaxed atmosphere but her maiden (少女) days were so limited that the regret could    6    (feel) in her poem: ‘‘Can’t you see? The green leaves thriving (旺盛) but the red flowers fading overnight.’’ The arrival and disappearance of spring is one of the most frequent themes in Chinese poetry. Li had two marriages. The first ended up her being abandoned during the war.     7    (bad) still, she suffered physical abuse from her second husband. Bravely she charged him at the court and got the    8     (permit) to divorce.

In the final stage of her life, even with no one to rely    9    , she never gave up hope and created many literary works that have been left for generations     10     ( appreciate) to date.