题目：
Summarize the story of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.
答案：
参考答案：A. The story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States. The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice, about black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friend as well. During their journey, they experience a series of adventures: coming across two frauds, the "Duke" and the "King, " witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom’s coming to rescue.
B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word "freedom": Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft’s journey down the Mississippi river to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
