3 . Sunday was going to be the birthday for me and my other two classmates. As we were born in the same month, we decided to have a big party to ________ it.

On that evening, we ________ all our classmates. We prepared a lot of food and drinks. After singing the birthday song, we ________ the delicious cake together. We sang more songs and played games. Then someone told ________ stories, and everyone laughed. Three hours ________ quickly. Because we had to go to ________ before 11：00 pm, we ended our party at 10：00 pm. Before we left, our classmates gave ________ of us a birthday card with their best wishes. Finally we took some pictures together. What a great time we had! At that moment, I ________ love and happiness.

Before the party, only my ________ could remember my birthday, and I had never had such a big party and so many friends’ wishes. ________ I wanted to say to my classmates, “Thank you, and I will never forget this evening, especially each of you!”

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

There were lots of ________ in early cartoons. One famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat.

Walt Disney started to ________ films in the 1920s. Some of his earliest films were about a famous story, Alice in Wonderland, ________ 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 ________ sound, then very soon after that in a talking film and later in colour. The Mickey Mouse film with sound became really ________.

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