Task 4. Mark the sentences as True (T), False (F) or Not Stated (NS). Mark Twain was born in 1835 in the United States. His real name was Samuel Clemens. When he was a boy, he lived in a small town on the Mississippi River. He worked as a pilot 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 a lot and visited 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 — Mark Twain was born in the United States, not England. (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 — He worked as a pilot on a steamboat, not as a teacher. (Он работал лоцманом на пароходе, а не учителем.)

4. T — The text says that he had three daughters. (В тексте сказано, что у него было три дочери.)

5. NS — The text does not say how many books he wrote. (В тексте не сказано, сколько книг он написал.)