was born in Brussels, on June 25th, 1928. His real name was Pierre Culliford. At first, he almost became a dentist’s assistant. Luckily, he got a job in a cartoon studio. There he met and worked with some of Europe’s most famous comic book artists such as Franquin and Morris. Unfortunately the studio closed down and Peyo decided to become a full-time comic artist. He found himself a pen name from his childhood nickname ‘Pe- yot’.
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       .

The fast development of technology has brought great changes to China’s media industry．It’s becoming difficult for Chinese TV entertainment programmes to get a high rating(收视率)easily as they did in the 1980s．
However，Zhejiang Satellite TV’s talent show The Voice of China became one of China’s hottest topics last year．The popular singing contest has helped turn some winners into hot stars，with a bright future ahead of them．Last year,I’m a Singer,another singing talent show of Hunan Satellite TV,had caught many people’s eyes，helping some once hot singers become popula again．
The Voice of China originares(起源)from The Voice of Holland.The show first started in Holland 4 years ago．Later the American television network NBC bought the copyrights(版权)to do a similar show in the U．S．Since then，the music talent show has become a hit in more than 50 countries around the world．I’m a Singer was one of the highest rating shows in South Korea in 2011．It was bought by Hunan Satellite TV from MBC，the South Korean television network later．
The success of The Voice of China and I’m a Singer has helped Chinese TV producers find that it’s a good way to buy the copyrights of some overseas TV shows and make them local programmes．Last year，they turned their eyes from singing to diving(跳水)．Stars in Danger-High Dive produced by Jiangsu Satellite TV in the Water Cube is a celebrity (名人) diving talent show originating from Germany．Zhejiang Satellite TV’s  Splash also comes from the TV show named Celebrity Splash in Holland.

—To achieve a bright future,  we should______ study hard____ keep in good health.
—I agree with you.

If you are writing or studying, it makes much difference where the light comes from. People use  36  and pens every day. They have to be very careful about the  37   of the light because the light shines on their work.

Every  38  gets its light either from daylight  39  the window or from the lamps,   40   no matter what kind of light it is, the way it shines is very important to the eyes.

Take a book and sit with your  41  towards the window, and try to read. Your shadow(影子) falls all over the page and makes it  4  for your eyes as if you were in a  43  room. Now turn around and face the window. The page is in shadow again,  44  the bright light is in your eyes.Try sitting with your  45  side towards the window. This is very good for reading, but if you were writing, the shadow  46   fall across the page and trouble you  47  .There is another way – sit  48  your left side to the window. Now everything is perfect for  49   as well.

Whatever kind of light is in the room, the rule about the right way to sit is  50  the same. So you see different ways to sit make much difference in writing or studying.

1.. A. eyes                           B. heads                              C. books                               D. hands

2. A. road           B. path              C. way              D. trail

3.A. house                     B. woman                            C. man                                 D. animal

4.A. from                    B. through                           C. into                                  D. inside

5. A. but                         B. until                                 C. if                                       D. when

6. A. side                    B. back                                 C. body                                 D. front

7.A. good                           B. bad                                   C. useful                              D. clear

8.. A. bright                        B. clean                                C. dirty                                 D. dark

9. A. while                           B. or                                      C. if                                  D. till

10. A. front                         B. back                                 C. left                                   D. right

11.. A. can                         B. may                                  C. has to                         D. ought to

12. A. few                            B. a few                               C. little                                 D. a little

13.A. by                     B. with                                 C. against                                     D. near

14. A. speaking                  B. reading                           C. writing                        D. playing

15.. A. only                          B. never                               C. hardly                         D. always