Question

O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, （a）出生于in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for （b）______________ he was born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything（c）他需要知道。

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison（監獄）. During the three years in prison, （d）he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with sudden change. （e）This made the readers surprised.

1．將劃線部分（a）譯成英語:_______________________________________

2．在（b）的空白處填入適當的詞組:_________________________________

3．將劃線部分（c）譯成英語: ______________________________________

4．將劃線部分（d）譯成漢語: ______________________________________

5．將劃線部分（e）譯成漢語: ______________________________________

Answer 1

1．was born                 2．because             3．he needed to know

4．他學習了寫短篇小說。                           5．（這）其結局令讀者吃驚。