Question

7．Samuel Langhorne Clemens，more commonly （41）known（know） as Mark Twain，was born on November 30，1835 in Florida．Twain is considered （42）asgreatest author and humorist of the 19th-century American literature （文学）．
In 1839 the Clemens family moved to Hannibal，Missouri，on the Mississippi River where he was brought （43）up．Like many authors of his day he had little formal education．His education came from the print shops and newspaper offices （44）wherehe worked as a youth．In 1853 Twain left Hannibal to travel．On a trip to New Orleans he persuaded a riverboat pilot （45）to teach（teach） him his skill．By the spring of 1859 Twain was a licensed riverboat pilot．
After a（n） （46）successful（success） attempt at gold and silver mining he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virginia City，Nevada．He first wrote under the pen name Mark Twain in 1863．
He continued to travel as a reporter for various newspapers，and in 1869 his travel letters from Europe （47）was collected（collect） into the popular book The Innocents Abroad．Between 1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels （48）including（include） his Mississippi River books．
（49）AsTwain's life and career progressed he lost much of the humorous style of his earlier years．What was expressed more and more in his later works was （50）thathuman beings are selfish．Even so Twain is best remembered as a great humorist．

Answer 1

分析 文章介绍里马克吐温的一生，从小时候到长大的学习经历过程，以及介绍了他的小说主要反映的社会现象．

解答 41．known 考查动词．根据句意可知，Samuel Langhorne Clemens普遍被认为是马克吐温，be known as 为固定短语，作为…而著名．
42．as 考查介词．此处是一个固定短语be considered as意思是被认为是…
43．考查介词．bring up是动词短语，养育，抚养，根据句意马克吐温是在Mississippi River 河畔被养大的．
44．考查连接词．where此处引导一个定语从句，先行词为the print shops and newspaper offices．
45．to teach考查非谓语．persuade sb to do 意思是劝说某人做某事．
46．successful考查形容词．修饰名词 attempt 需要用形容词，即a successful attempt意思是一次成功的尝试．
47．was collected考查被动语态．根据句意他的旅游日志被收录到一本流行的书中．
48．including考查介词．including此处是介词，包括的意思．
49．as 考查连词．根据句意可知，随着他人生和事业的进步，同时他也失去了一些东西．
50．that考查连接词．分析 句式可知，此处that引导一个表语从句，在该句中不做成分不能去掉．

点评 语法填空要根据具体语境来判断所填词的正确形式，同时要注意基本的语法知识，如非谓语，名词单复数，以及各种词性的相互转化．