【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 11-13
American writer O. Henry was the pen name of William Sidney Porter. He was born in Greensboro, America, in 1862. His mother died when he was only three years old. At the age of fifteen, he left school to work in his uncle's drug store. He moved to Texas five years later. He lived in the city of Austin where he got married, worked in a local bank and owned a weekly newspaper.
In Texas, his wife became sick, their baby died and his newspaper failed. He was said to have stolen money from the bank where he worked. His wife died, and he was sent to prison.
That is where he started to write. His first story was published in a national magazine in 1898. After being let out of prison in 1901, Porter went to New York and there he worked full time as a writer. He published more stories, all under the name of O. Heary. No one really knows where he got that name. He wrote colorful short stories with surprising and ironic twists.
O. Henry did not have any good friends. He began to drink too much and he died in New York in 1910.

单选题 What can we learn from the passage?
A. O. Henry's mother died when he was fifteen.
B. O. Henry did not have any good friends.
C. O. Henry got his name from his mother.
D. O. Henry led a happy life when he was old.