Cultural Notes: Mississippi:密西西比河是美国第一大河。 起点是明尼苏达州，终点是墨西哥湾。在其 漫长的流动中，密西西比河滋润着美国大陆 41%的土地，水量也比任何其它的美国河流 都要多。密西西比河也是干万的美国人饮 用水的来源
Cultural Notes: Mississippi：密西西比河是美国第一大河。 起点是明尼苏达州, 终点是墨西哥湾。在其 漫长的流动中,密西西比河滋润着美国大陆 41%的土地,水量也比任何其它的美国河流 都要多。密西西比河也是千万的美国人饮 用水的来源
Text A Literary Giant:Mark Twain Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas,the frontier America that produced so much of national mythology and the emerging urban,industrial giant of the 20th century. At the heart of Twain's achievement is his creation of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who embody the mythic America,midway between the wilderness and the model state
Text A Literary Giant: Mark Twain Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas, the frontier America that produced so much of national mythology and the emerging urban, industrial giant of the 20th century. At the heart of Twain's achievement is his creation of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who embody the mythic America, midway between the wilderness and the model state
Text B Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (1899- 1961),born in Oak Park, Illinois,started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army
Text B Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (1899- 1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army
Text B Ernest Hemingway During the twenties,Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris,which he described in his first important work,The Sun Also Rises (1926) Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929),the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter
Text B Ernest Hemingway During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter
Text B Ernest Hemingway Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel,For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works,the most outstanding is The Old Man and Sea
Text B Ernest Hemingway Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is The Old Man and Sea