Other troubles would lead the Porters to leave Austin. Porter was accused of financial wrongdoing at the bank and lost his job. Fearing a trial, he fled the country. But he returned because his wife was dying. After her death, he faced trial and was found guilty. He served three and a half years in a federal prison in Ohio.

　　Porter would keep his time in prison a secret. But there was one good thing about it. It provided him with time to write. By the time of his release, he had published 14 stories and was becoming well-known as O. Henry.

　　Porter would later move to New York City and find great success there. He published over 380 stories in the last eight years of his life.

　　38. What is the author’s purpose of writing paragraph 3?

　　A. To attract more visitors to the O. Henry Museum.

　　B. To show the jobs O. Henry once did.

　　C. To show O. Henry’s early love of words and writing.

　　D. To introduce O. Henry’s publication called “The Rolling Stone”.

　　39. Which of the following shows the right order of O. Henry?

　　a. He was committed to prison.

　　b. He settled down in central Austin.

　　c. His wife died.

　　d. He started a small publication called “The Rolling Stone”.

　　e. He moved to New York City.

　　A. bdcae

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