A．to bring his uncle to lunch

　　B．to ask his uncle to talk there that night

　　C．he could make his uncle laugh

　　D．to sit in the first row with his uncle

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。由第三段可知马克·吐温让年轻人带他的叔叔来听他的演讲，到时他会让他叔叔大笑。

　　4．Mark Twain's stories made everyone in the hall laugh except ________.

　　A．the old man　　　　　 B．the young man

　　C．Mark Twain himself D．a friend of Mark Twain's

　　解析：选A　细节理解题。由第四段中的"But the old man never even smiled ...But the old man's face was still a blank."可知马克·吐温没能逗笑这位老人。

　　B

　　What do Tom Sawyer and Jumping Frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain.Twain was four years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, located on the west bank of the Mississippi.Twain grew up there and was fascinated with (使......入迷) life along the river - the steamboats, the giant lumber (木头) rafts, and the people who worked on them.

　　The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Twain's best loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels.Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days, which originated in the late 1950s and became national in the 1960s.Children enter their frogs in the jumping contest during National Tom Sawyer Days.There's also a fence painting contest to see who can paint the fastest.The idea for this contest comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in.It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else.As his friends walk by, he makes them believe that it's fun to paint, and they join in the "fun"．By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint!

　　Although the story of Tom Sawyer is a fiction (虚构的事), it's based on facts.If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home.

　　语篇解读：本文主要介绍了马克·吐温的两部作品及汤姆索亚日期间的一些活动。

　　5．Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is TRUE?

　　A．He was born in Hannibal.

　　B．He enjoyed his life in Hannibal.

　　C．He spent most of his childhood on the Mississippi.

D．He often went rafting (坐船漂流) on the Mississippi with his parents.