Activity 6 Read the passage and complete the sentences.

The first cartoons appeared in newspapers. They told stories using pictures. The first photographed cartoon film (in 1906) was about humorous faces. In the film,an artist drew pictures of two faces on a blackboard. The faces came to life.They smiled and a small dog jumped through a ring.

最早的漫画出现在报纸上。它们用图画讲故事。第一部拍摄的卡通电影（在1906年）是关于滑稽的面孔的。在影片中，一位艺术家在黑板上画了两幅面孔图画。面孔生动逼真。它们笑着，一只小狗从一个环中跳过。

There were a lot of animals in early cartoons. One famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat.

在早期的连环漫画中有许多动物。一个早期著名的卡通人物是利克斯猫。

Walt Disney started to make films in the 1920s. Some of his earliest films were about a famous story, Alice in Wonderland, but in Disney's films it was called Alice in Cartoon Land. Walt Disney's most famous cartoon character was Mickey Mouse. He appeared in 1928, first in a black-and-white film without sound, then very soon after that in a talking film and later in colour. A Mickey Mouse film was the first cartoon film with sound to become really popular.

沃尔特o迪斯尼在20世纪20年代开始制作影片。他最早的一些影片是关于一个著名的故事《爱丽丝梦游仙境》的，但在迪斯尼的影片里，它叫_《爱丽丝游历卡通国》。沃尔特o迪斯尼最著名的卡通人物是米老鼠。他在1928年首次出现在一部无声黑白电影中，然后很快出现在有声电影里，随后是彩色电影。米老鼠电影是第一部变得非常受欢迎的有声卡通电影。

Today,over a hundred years later,cartoons are still popular with people of all ages. They will probably be popular for many more years in the future.

100多年后的今天，动画片仍然受到各个年龄段人们的欢迎。在将来许多年里它们可能仍会受欢迎。