Task 4. Mark the sentences as True (T), False (F) or Not Stated (NS). Mark Twain. Mark Twain was born in 1835 in the United States. His real name was Samuel [the remainder of the passage is cut off]. When he was a boy, he lived in a small town on the Mississippi River. He worked on a steamboat before he became a writer. His most famous books are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. Twain travelled to many countries. He had three daughters. Mark Twain died in 1910. He is often called the father of American literature. 1. Mark Twain was born in England. 2. His real name was Samuel Clemens. 3. He worked as a teacher before he became a writer. 4. Mark Twain had three daughters. 5. He wrote more than twenty books.

Перевод задания: Отметьте предложения как верные (T), неверные (F) или не упомянутые в тексте (NS).

1. F — The passage says that Mark Twain was born in the United States, not England. (В тексте сказано, что Марк Твен родился в Соединённых Штатах, а не в Англии.)
2. T — His real name was Samuel Clemens. (Его настоящее имя — Сэмюэл Клеменс.)
3. F — The passage says that he worked on a steamboat, not as a teacher. (В тексте сказано, что он работал на пароходе, а не учителем.)
4. T — The passage states that he had three daughters. (В тексте сказано, что у него было три дочери.)
5. NS — The number of books he wrote is not stated in the visible passage. (Количество написанных им книг в видимой части текста не указано.)

В исходном тексте фамилия после имени «Samuel» обрезана, однако в утверждении 2 указано полное имя, и оно соответствует известному настоящему имени Марка Твена.