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Spinach Power

It’s the spinach (菠菜)! The sailor opens the can and eats it. Then things change very quickly!

He grows very tall and strong. His muscles (肌肉) come out. No one can beat him now. This is Popeye the sailor. Now the cartoons of the sailor and his spinach are on show in the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. It’s for Popeye’s seventy?fifth birthday.

“There are few characters (角色) that are so old and still loved by people,” said Barry Monush, from the show. Popeye loves a very thin and tall girl, Olive Oyl. She often gets into trouble. But Popeye is the one to save her!

Most kids have watched this cartoon on TV. Mum says spinach is good, but kids only begin to like it because of the sailor! Who can forget his face with its large chin (下巴) and almost closed right eye? Popeye always wins. He’s simple, but he knows how to stop the strong Bluto’s bad plans. In 1929, Popeye was first in the comic strip (连环画) “Thimble Theatre” (《顶针剧院》) by E.C. Segar in the US. He only had a small part. But two years later he had his own comic strip. Americans ate 33 percent more spinach in the 1930s! “He shows anybody can be great,” said Wang Di, 14, from Beijing. “He gets angry, but I still love him and his spinach.”

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China is one of the oldest countries in the world．She has a 　　1　　 of about five thousand years．No one is told 　　2　　 the first people in China came from．Yes, we know that bones of some of the first people have been found near Beijing and near the Yellow River, which runs 　　3　　 North China(华北)like a huge dragon and winds its way from the west to the east．There are many 　　4　　 about how the world began and who the first kings were．One story tells of how ten suns shone in 　　5　　 and how Hou Yi(后羿)shot down 　　6　　 of them．Another story tells about how Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, beat Tsi Yor(蚩尤)and united 　　7　　 parts of the country into one kingdom．The ancient Chinese did a lot of wonders(奇迹)，one of which was the Great Wall．It 　　8　　 many years to build it and it was finished in the 220s B．C．Seeing the Great Wall, you can’t 　　9　　 wondering how all the work was done 　　10　　 modern machines．

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