B. Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), or Not Stated (NS). 1. Mark Twain was the original name of the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 2. He was often ill in his childhood but he had no health problems in his adult life. 3. His house was on the bank of the Mississippi River. 4. His uncle was very cruel to his slaves. 5. The impressions of his early days ... 6. Samuel graduated from the local university. 7. He was a professional printer and then reporter. 8. He got his pen name as a writer after the person he admired. 9. Mark Twain travelled to thirty countries. 10. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are among famous works of world literature for children.

1. F — Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens’s pen name, not his original name.
2. NS — the visible text does not state whether he had health problems as an adult.
3. NS — the visible passage does not establish that his house was on the riverbank.
4. NS — the text mentions violence against enslaved people, but does not say that his uncle was cruel to them.
5. NS — the statement is cut off in the image.
6. F — the passage says he received an honorary degree from Oxford, not that he graduated from a local university.
7. T — the passage describes his work in printing and his later work as a reporter.
8. F — “Mark Twain” came from a boating phrase meaning two fathoms of water, not from a person he admired.
9. NS — the visible text does not say that he travelled to thirty countries.
10. T — the passage identifies these books as famous works for children.

Note: The beginning of the passage and the end of statement 5 are not fully visible, so those items cannot be checked reliably from this image alone.