【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] W: Dear audience, this evening we'll talk with a scholar who has been doing research into Mark Twain's works for 12 years. Welcome, Mr. Watson. M: Hi, everyone! Good evening! W: What would you like to talk about the great writer? Maybe some details that we don't quite know. M: OK. Mark Twain traveled quite a lot, often because circumstances, usually financial circumstances, forced him to. He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that isn't true. That place provided the setting for his famous book Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. W: Really? I wouldn't have known that if you hadn't told us this evening. M: Well, after his father died when he was about twelve, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so he could earn more money. He worked as a typesetter on various newspapers, and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi. W: Did Twain like that job? M: He loved this job, and many of his books show it. The river job didn't last however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War. To avoid joining the army, he went west—California. Twain worked as a gold miner without much luck. W: That's interesting! M: But he did succeed as a writer, once that happened, Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much either. Somehow his travel inspired his writings. Like many other popular writers, Twain derived much of the materials for his writing from the wealth and diversity of his own experience. Which place provided the setting for Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer?