Unit 2 Activity 2 Read the passage and choose a sentence that best summarises it.

Cartoon heroes

卡通故事里的主人公

Ixlemo is a cute orange-and-white fish and Shrek is an ugly green man. They look very ditferent,but both of them have won the hearts of young people all over the world.The pictures of these popular cartoon heroes are everywhere, on office desks,schoolbags and computer screens.

尼莫是一条可爱的橙白相间的鱼；史瑞克是一个丑陋的绿色的人。他们看起来差别很大，但他们都赢得了全世界年轻人的心。这些流行的卡通故事里的主人公的图片随处可见，在办公桌上、书包上和电脑屏幕上。

There are also some older cartoon favourites,for example, the Monkey King. He is the hero of a story called Havoc in Heaven.He leads a group of monkeys against the Emperor of Heaven and his men.He is brave, clever and humorous. Parents and children laugh together as the Monkey King makes a terrible mess in heaven. They always expect to see more Monkey King cartoons.

屯有稍早一些特别令人喜爱的卡通人物，例如，美猴王。他是故事《大闹天宫》里的主人公。他带领一群猴子对抗玉皇大帝和他的人。他勇敢、聪明、幽默。当美猴王把天宫里搞得一团糟时，父母与孩子一起大笑。他们总是期望看到更多的美猴王动画片。

Tintin is another favourite cartoon hero, He has been popular for over eighty years, ever since the artist Herge invented him in 1929. Tintin has red hair and a small white dog. He works for a newspaper and has lots of exciting experiences. Fans have bought about 200 million copies of Tintin's stories in more than fifty languages. Tintin appeared in China in the 1980s. Many Chinese still collect these black-and-white Tintin books.

丁丁是另一个特别令人喜爱的卡通人物。自从艺术家艾尔热在1929年创作出他，80多年来他一直受欢迎。丁丁长着红头发，带着一只小白狗。他在一家报社工作，有许多令人激动的经历。粉丝们已经购买了大约2亿本用50多种语言写的丁丁的故事书。丁丁在20世纪80年代出现在中国。许多中国人仍然收藏着这些黑白的丁丁画册。

Finally,Snoopy, a cute dog, celebrated his sixtieth birthday in 2010. Snoopy lives in his own private world and finds real life hard to understand. Charles created Snoopy and his friends，and drew the cartoons to satisfy older people as well as children.

最后是史努比，一只可爱的狗，在2010年庆祝了他的60岁生日。史努比生活在他自己的私人世界里，发现真实的生活难以理解。查尔斯o舒尔茨创作出史努比和他的朋友们，画了既让孩子满意又让年长的人满意的连环漫画。