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    Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Mark Twain

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    About this ebook

    This is Book 11, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
    Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

    [Text Information]
    Readability | 87.82
    Total word count | 34637
    Words beyond 1500 | 1382
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.99
    Unknown headword occurrence | 3.7
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 74
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 204

    [Synopsis]
    This book is rewritten from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, another famous novel by Mark Twain (1835 – 1910).
    Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is a clever, kind and brave white boy. He does not like his new life with Widow Douglas and school. Then his drunken father takes him away and locks him in the cabin. Huck escapes and hides himself on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River. There, he meets Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a farm down the river. That is the beginning of their adventures down the Mississippi River....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 15, 2015
    ISBN9781311434470
    Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Qiliang Feng

    Qiliang Feng has been a teacher of English in senior high schools since 1983. He is a keen supporter of reading in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is expert at rewriting graded/simplified ESL(English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has published several series of English reading course books and is promoting a reading project called Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP), in which ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach the upper-intermediate level easily.

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      Huckleberry Finn (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      About This Book

      This is Book 11, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.

      Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

      Text Information

      Readability | 87.8

      Total word count | 34637

      Words beyond 1500 | 1381

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.99

      Unknown headword occurrence | 3.71

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 73

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 203

      Notes:

      1. About readability: This is Flesch Reading Ease Readability calculated with MS WORD. The higher the score, the easier the text is to read.

      Score | Level

      0-29 | Very difficult

      30-49 | Difficult

      50-59 | Fairly difficult

      60-69 | Standard

      70-79 | Fairly easy

      80-89 | Easy

      90-100 | Very easy

      2. This e-version does not give the meanings of unknown words. You can look them up with the dictionary on your e-reader. For words with different meanings and some expressions, we give their meanings at the end of the passages. We also provide some necessary background information.

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      Synopsis

      This book is rewritten from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", another famous novel by Mark Twain (1835 – 1910).

      Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is a clever, kind and brave white boy. He does not like his new life with Widow Douglas and school. Then his drunken father takes him away and locks him in the cabin. Huck escapes and hides himself on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River. There, he meets Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a farm down the river. That is the beginning of their adventures down the Mississippi River….

      Chapter 1. Tom Sawyer Waits

      You won’t know about me unless you have read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

      Now the book ends like this:

      Tom and I found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars each - all gold. Well, Judge Thatcher kept it for us and gave us an interest of a dollar a day each all the year round - too much for one to spend.

      The Widow Douglas took me for her son, but I couldn’t stand the life in her house, so I ran out. I got into my old rags and my barrel again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer found me and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow. So I went back.

      The widow cried over me. She put me in the new clothes again, and I couldn’t do anything but sweat and sweat, and feel uncomfortable. Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t.

      Her sister, Miss Watson, a slim old maid, with glasses on, had just come to live with her. She made me work on a spelling-book. I couldn’t stand it any longer. Miss Watson kept finding fault with me, and it got tiresome.

      I went up to my room with a piece of candle, and put it on the table. Then I sat down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it was no use.

      I got out my pipe for a smoke. The house was still now, and the widow wouldn’t know. Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town striking twelve. Pretty soon I heard a branch breaking down in the dark among the trees - something was moving.

      I sat still and listened. At once I could just hear a me-yow! me-yow! down there. That was good!

      I said me-yow! me-yow! as softly as I could, and then I put out the light and climbed out of the window. I slipped down to the ground and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.

      Chapter 2. Tom Sawyer’s Gang

      We went tiptoeing among the trees back towards the end of the widow’s garden. When we were passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise.

      We lay down and kept still. Miss Watson’s big nigger, named Jim, was sitting in the kitchen door. He got up and listened about a minute. Then he said, Who’s there?

      He listened some more, then he came tiptoeing down and stood right between us. Pretty soon Jim said, Say, who are you? I heard something. Well, I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to sit down here and listen.

      So he sat down on the ground between Tom and me. After six or seven minutes, Jim began to breathe heavily. Next he began to snore. Tom made a sign to me - a little noise with his mouth - and we went creeping away on our hands and knees.

      Well, when Tom and I got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights shining. Down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and quite still and grand.

      We went down the hill and found Jo[1] Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hidden in the old tanyard.

      So we found a boat and pulled down the river two miles and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went on land. We went to some bushes, and Tom made everybody swear to keep the secret, and then showed them a hole in the hill, right in the thickest part of the bushes. Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our hands and knees.

      We went about two hundred yards, and then the cave opened up. We went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and cold, and there we stopped.

      Tom said, Now, we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

      Everybody was willing. So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had written the oath on, and read it. Everybody said it was a beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books.

      We planned to stop carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money.

      Must we always kill the people?

      We’ll bring some of them to the cave here, and keep them till they’re ransomed.

      Ransomed? But what does that mean?

      I’ve seen it in books, and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.

      But how can we do it if we don’t know what it is?

      Why, we’ve got to do it. Didn’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to do differently from what’s in the books?

      Oh, that’s all very fine to say, Tom Sawyer, but how are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don’t know how to do it? Now, what do you suppose it is?

      Well, I don’t know. But perhaps it means that we keep them till they’re dead.

      Now, that’s it. Why couldn’t you say that before? We’ll keep them till they’re ransomed to death, and they’ll eat up everything, and always try to get loose.

      How you talk, Ben Rogers. How can they get loose when there’s a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move?

      A guard! Well, that is good. So somebody’s got to sit up all night and never get any sleep, just so as to watch them. I think that’s foolish. Why can’t a body take a stick and ransom them as soon as they get here?

      Because it isn’t in the books so - that’s why. Now, Ben Rogers, don’t you suppose that the people that made the books knew what’s the correct thing to do? Do you suppose you can teach them anything? No, sir, we’ll just ransom them in the regular way.

      All right. I don’t mind, but I say it’s a foolish way, anyhow. Say, do we kill the women, too?

      Kill the women? No, nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you’re always very polite to them, and soon they will never want to go home any more.

      Well, then, very soon we’ll have the cave so crowded with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that there won’t be place for the robbers. But go ahead, I have got nothing to say.

      Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they woke him up he was scared. He cried and said he wanted to go home to his ma and didn’t want to be a robber any more. So they all made fun of him, and called him cry-baby. That made him mad, and he said he would go straight and tell all the secrets. But Tom gave him five cents to keep quiet, and said we would all go home and meet next week, and rob somebody and kill some people.

      They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang. And so they started home.

      I climbed into my window just before day was breaking. My new clothes were all dirty and I was very tired.

      Chapter 3. Huck’s Father Is Drunk Again

      Well, old Miss Watson got angry with me in the morning on account of my clothes, but the widow only cleaned my clothes and looked so sorry that I thought I would be good a while if I could.

      We hadn’t seen Pap for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me. I didn’t want to see him any more. He used to beat me when he was drunk and could get hold of me, though I used to run into the woods most of the time when he was around.

      We played robber now and then about a month, and we stopped. We hadn’t robbed anybody, hadn’t killed any people, but only just pretended.

      Well, three or four months passed, and it was winter now. I had been to school almost all the time

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