Are fables(寓言故事)and fairy tales(童话故事) different or the same? They are both stories for children, but fables are stories for adults, too.

Fables are stories which are passed down from grandparents to parents and then to children. People can learn much from them. The characters are mostly animals. They can talk and act like humans. The most famous fables were written by a man called Aesop. There are many famous fables in Aesop’s Fables. The Lion and the Mouse and The Farmer and the Snake are two examples.

Fairy tales are usually stories for children. They are often about magic characters, for example, fairies and gods. Sometimes the characters are animals. We are able to enjoy these fairy tales because of the famous Brothers Grimm. They tried their best to collect these stories before people forgot. There are many fairy tales in Gimmes Fairy Tales, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Frog Prince and Snow White.

1. _________ are the main characters in fables.

A. Humans B. plants C. Gods D. Animals

2.What do the underlined works “passed down” mean in Chinese?

A.采访 B. 编辑 C. 流传 D. 回收

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. People can learn nothing from fables.

B. Children may love reading fairy tales.

C. Aesop collected fairy tales before people forgot.

D.The characters in fairy tales are all real people.

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Famous fables and fairy tales in the world.

B. The ways to collect fairy tales for kids.

C. The reasons why people can read fables.

D. Differences between fables and fairy tales.

Can dolphins (海豚) talk? Maybe they can not talk with words,but they can talk with sounds.

They show their feelings with sounds.Dolphins travel in a group.We call a group of fish a“school”.They do not study,but they travel together.Dolphins are mammals (哺乳动物),not fish,but they swim together like fish in a schoo1.Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the schoo1.They give information to the others.They talk when they are happy,sad or afraid.They say“welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the schoo1.They talk when they play.

They make some sounds above water.They make many more sounds under water.People cannot hear these sounds because they are very,very high.Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them.Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium (水族宫).People can watch dolphins in a show.Dolphins do not like to be away from their school in an aquarium.They are sad and lonely.There are many stories about dolphins.They help people.Sometimes they save somebody' s life.Dolphins' meat is good,but people do not like to kill them.They say that dolphins bring good luck.Many people believe this.

1.The word“school”in this passage means

A.a place for students to study

B. a group of fish traveling together

C.a special kind of animals

D.a place for training dolphins

2.A dolphin makes a sound to

A.show other dolphins they are happy

B.tell other dolphins they are sa

C.1et people know they are afraid

D.give information to the other dolphins

3.The best title (题目) for this passage is

A.Dolphin's talk B.Schools of dolphins

C.The dolphin D.Man's friend

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