题目内容
Comic Books, Yes and No?In our house, there are lots of comic(滑稽的) books. Some are on the table in the living room. Some are under my bed. Some are under Neal's bed.
Neal is my brother. He is seven, two years younger than I am.
Every Saturday we do our work first. Then mother lets each of us buy a comic book about animals or children.
We can hardly wait to get home to read them! We lie on the floor between our bed. Everything is very quiet then-until we burst out laughing. Mom calls our laughs “explosions”. I guess they sound that way to her.
Yesterday I heard Mrs. Easton ask Mom, “Do you really LET your boys read comic books? I must say I am surprised!” Mom said,“Of course I let them!” Then she said, “That is, I let them read comics about animals and children. Not all comic books are bad. Some are very good.”
“I wonder why children like comic books?” Mrs. Easton asked.
Mom laughed. “I really don't know,” she answered. “But we know they do!”
Well, no one asked me. But I could tell Mrs. Easton and mother why we like comics!
The ones Neal and I read are funny. The people and the animals in them are smart. They are not goody-goody (虚假的), the way they are in some stories.
Comic books are something like space ships. They take Neal and me to the planet Mars or to a rabbit's house. They bring us old friends and new friends. Donald and Mickey and Bugs and Elmer seem like real people to us!
We like comic books most of all because we never know what will happen next. In some books, you can always tell what's going to happen.
True or False
1.The stories in the comic books often make the two brothers very sad and angry.
2.The two brothers won't get new comic books before they finish doing their work every Saturday.
3.All the grown-ups know clearly why children like reading comic books.
4.The stories in comic books can take children to places they have wanted to and help them meet a lot of friends.
5.The two brothers like comic books best of all because they can always guess what will happen next.
Peyo became successful as a comic (连环画) artist. He decided to draw what he really loved,
stories based in the Middle Ages. He created the character Johan and drew some Johan strips (漫画) for the Belgian daily newspaper ‘Le Soir’ and then for ‘Spirou’ magazine. Johan soon became a huge success and one of the magazine’s main characters.
For Johan’s ninth book of adventures, Peyo needed a group of imps (小精灵) to build a magic flute. At a meal with his friend Andre Franquin. he asked Franquin to pass him the salt. But he couldn’t remember the word so he said, “Pass me the … um… the smurf!”. Franquin handed it over and answered, “Here’s the smurf. Onee you’ve smurfed with it you can smurf it back to me!” And so the name and language of the little imps were invented. The readers soon fell in love with these little smurfs, who love having fun, live in mushroom-shaped houses and speak a strange and wonderful language.
The Smurfs films were first seen on Belgian television and then in France and the Netherlands. In 1981. The Smurfs was on the American NBC TV Channel for the first time, but the success didn’t stop there. The success of the Smurfs became planetary in the 80’s because of the cartoons. There are few regions left where people don’t know smurfs, but their name changes in every county; the Smurfs, die Schlümpfe, Los Pitufos, I Puffi. de Smurfen, les Schtroumpfs… and 蓝精灵 in Chinese.
In August 2011, the Smurfs make their return to the big screen again, this time in 3D! Peyo left us on December 24, 1992, but the Smurfs have continued their many adventures and are today looking forward to a bright and even more exciting future.
【小题1】Peyo’s real name was .
| A.Pierre | B.Franquin |
| C.Morris | D.Johan |
| A.as a dentist’s assistant | B.the one in a cartoon studio |
| C.as a full-time comic artist | D.as a newsagent |
| A.are a group of blue imps from Peyo’s book |
| B.are serious and hate having fun |
| C.soon became one of the ‘Spirou’ magazine’s main characters |
| D.will be in the movie on December 24th, 2011 |
| A.The Smurfs have come back to their big screen home. |
| B.Peyo has left for another country. |
| C.The Smurfs’ story stops after Peyo left us. |
| D.There might be more works about Smurfs in the future. |
Simon, Kitty says she a comic book in your home yesterday.
| A.leaves | B.left | C.forgets | D.forgot |