Kontrolltöö 7. klassile (ILE 5) Unit 12
Find where the six sentences below should go. Put a slash
(/) where you think a sentence is missing.
1 His first job was at a print shop.
2 He enjoyed his work because he met a lot of interesting people on the river.
3 Because of the war traffic on the Mississippi was closed.
4 During 20 years there, Mark Twain wrote most of his best books and stories.
5 He still continued to write.
6 In 1900 his toungest daughter also died.
Mark Twain
1 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835. He grew up in Hannibal, a
small town on the Mississippi, USA. He couldn´t go to school for very long and
had to leave because his father died when he was eleven. / Although he disliked
this job he worked as a printer for about ten years.
2 When he was 21 years old, he decided to start working on a riverboat on the
Mississhippi