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O. Henry was the name used by William Sidney Porter.He was in Greensboro, North Carolina in eighteen sixty-two.His mother died when he was three years old.He school at the age of fifteen to work in his uncle’s drug store.He to Texas five years later.He lived in the city of Austin where he married, worked in a local bank and a weekly newspaper.
William Sidney Porter had bad in Texas.His wife became sick, their baby died and his newspaper .Then he was accused of money from the bank where he worked.He fled to Honduras, but returned to be with his wife.She died in eighteen ninety-seven.Porter was to prison. That is where he started to .His first story was published in a national magazine in eighteen ninety-eight.After being from prison in nineteen oh-one, Porter went to New York City.He published more stories, all under the name O. Henry.No one really knows where he got that name.
O. Henrys first book was a short story collection called “Cabbages and Kings”.It was published in nineteen-oh-four.O. Henry published thirteen other of short stories.He wrote six hundred stories during his life.He wrote so that he could complete about one story a week.
Porter tried to forget his , but could not.He did not have any good friends.He began to drink too much alcohol.A second marriage failed.He died of tuberculosis in New York City in nineteen ten.He was forty-eight years old.
【小题1】A．bornB．livedC．diedD．buried【小题2】A．attendedB．leftC．finishedD．taught【小题3】A．relatedB．referredC．returnedD．moved【小题4】A．gotB．changedC．feltD．turned【小题5】A．readB．ownedC．boughtD．booked【小题6】A．dayB．habitC．luckD．future【小题7】A．failedB．influencedC．spreadD．appeared【小题8】A．stoppingB．robbingC．losingD．stealing【小题9】A．lovelyB．carefulC．illD．sick【小题10】A．sentencedB．attachedC．accusedD．caught【小题11】A．wonderB．writeC．worryD．sink【小题12】A．fledB．releasedC．drivenD．forced【小题13】A．collectionsB．filmsC．playsD．works【小题14】A．interestinglyB．wellC．quicklyD．richly【小题15】A．pastB．mistakeC．shortcomingsD．storiesA
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(答案→)A
解析：记叙文。美国著名小说家O. Henry富于传奇性的一生。他出身于医师家庭，当过药房学徒、新闻记者、 银行出纳员等。因银行短缺了一笔现金，为避免审讯，他离家流亡。后因回家探视病危的妻子被捕入狱，并在狱中开始写作。
【小题1】根据O. Henry的生(1862)卒(1910)年代和最后一段最后一句判断，他出生于Greensboro。
【小题2】他在15岁时辍学(left school)去到他叔叔的药店工作。
【小题3】五年之后他搬迁(moved)到德克萨斯州。
【小题4】get married结婚。
【小题5】下文语境判断：他主办一份报纸(own a newspaper)。
【小题6】他在德克萨斯州很倒霉(had bad luck)。
【小题7】他办的报纸失败了。
【小题8】接着他被指控从其所工作的银行偷钱。
【小题9】根据前文的His wife became sick判断，她的妻子生病了，他回去陪伴他。
【小题10】他被判刑入监狱(sentenced to prison)。
【小题11】他在监狱里开始写作(write)。
【小题12】在被释放出监狱之后，他来到纽约。
【小题13】他出版了其它的13部短篇小说集(collections)。
【小题14】根据complete判断。
【小题15】他想设法忘记他的过去(past)。
