跟随汤姆·索亚、哈克贝利·芬和他们的朋友一起，到密西西比河上去历险吧！目睹凶杀案，藏身于小岛，洞穴中迷路……充满刺激的探险之路，通向的却是一笔巨额财富！这一系列的故事是如何发生的呢？……

　　“黑猫英语分级读物”由上海外语教育出版社从Black Cat出版社引进。本套读物以经典名著的改编本为主，亦含少量当代原创作品，共96册，规模宏大，体系完备，分级科学，且每一本图书都装帧精良，行文地道，可读性强。
　　“黑猫英语分级读物”根据“扩读”（Expansive Reading）的理念编写而成。“扩读”的理念融“精读”和“泛读”的优点于一体，提倡：将文本作为跳板，助力学生探索语言、文学、文化及其他与文本相关的领域的知识。“扩读”理念与我国最新《英语课程标准》提出的“培养和发展学生的语言能力、文化意识、思维品质和学习能力”的精神相契合。
　　“黑猫英语分级读物”分小学和中学两个学段。
　　小学段读物分A-E5个级别，每个级别6本，共30本。小学段“黑猫英语分级读物”是绘本，故事以世界儿童喜闻乐见的经典或传统故事为主，也有少量当代原创故事和非虚构类作品；绘本的词汇、句型和语法都被控制在小学生能够掌握的范围内；绘本插图精美，表现力强，有助于小学生充分理解文本；每本绘本末尾都配有符合小学生身心发展的语言活动或游戏。
　　中学段读物分A-F6个级别，其中A-E5个级别，每个级别12本，F级6本，共66本。中学段“黑猫英语分级读物”以经典名著改编本为主，亦含少量当代原创作品。每本读物含：名著改编本或当代原创作品，丰富的百科类阅读文本，以及大量的语言学习活动和习题，在拓宽学生文化视野的同时，能引导学生深入透彻地理解文本，循序渐进地积累词汇、句型和语法等语言知识，全面发展听、说、读、写、看这五项语言技能，学习并合理运用跨学科知识，培养跨文化意识，提升阐释、分析、评估等思维能力。
　　“黑猫英语分级读物”语言地道优美，配图精美；注重词汇学习和积累，在每本读物的页脚位置，为重、难点词汇提供了词性、音标以及图片或文字（汉语或英汉双语）注释，小学段的读物后还附有图片词典；每本读物都配有分角色、剧场化的录音，可供学生聆听、跟读、仿读，是学生提高英语发音、培养语感必不可少的资源。读者可扫描每册读物封二中提供的二维码、安装“爱听外语”APP以获取该册图书的MP3录音。
　　我们坚信，“黑猫英语分级读物”将带给读者非同一般的阅读体验，使其穿越时空与古今文学大师进行心灵的对话、思想的碰撞，积淀人文知识，提升人文素养，为其终身发展奠定坚实的基础。

　　Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.He was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida,Missouri,USA.When he was four years old,he and his family went to live in Hannibal,Missouri,a town on the Mississippi River.He grew up on the river and a lot of the adventures in his books happened to him when he was a boy.When he was twenty-two years old,he started working as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River.He traveled up and clown the long river for four years.Then in 1861 he decided to go to Nevada and California：during the 1860s a lot of Americans went to the West to start a new life.He liked writing and he became a journalist i for the Morning Call in San Francisco,California.He started to use the name Mark Twain for his writing.In 1865 he wrote the short story \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\" and it was a great success.He became a famous writer and traveled to Hawaii and Europe.He met Olivia \"Livy\" Langdon in 1868 and married her in 1870.They had a son and three daughters and lived in Hartford,Connecticut.Here he wrote many of his famous books：The Adventures of Tom.Sawyer（1876）,The Prince and the Pauper(1880）,Life on the Mississippi(1883）,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884） and A Con,necticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court(1889）.Twain also wrote many funny short stories.Mark Twain's books became popular everywhere.People liked his way of writing,and many called him the father of American literature.He changed the American way of writing with his simple,
　　funny language.He died on April 21,1910 at the age of seventy-four.