Tom and Jerry
Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular cartoon characters in the world.In the short cartoons，Tom is always trying to catch Jerry，but he never has any success.Almost every cartoon ends with Tom in trouble and Jerry laughing at him.The stories are full of fun and have a long history.
   William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s.（A）他們的老板告訴他們制作滑稽的卡通片。Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse.They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and always got the cat（B） ________trouble.
   （C） People showed the first Tom and Jerry cartoon in cinemas in 1940.It was a great success.Over the （D） next 17 years，they made many Tom and Jerry cartoons.Most of them are（E） around seven minutes long.
   In total，Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons.The cartoons were（F） ________good that they won a number of awards.The famous cat and mouse remain popular today，as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.

（1）將文中畫線部分（A）譯成英語：

Their boss told them to make funny cartoons.

Their boss told them to make funny cartoons.

（2）在文中（B）和（F）的空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~：

into

into

；

so

so

（3）將文中畫線部分（C）改寫為：The first Tom and Jerry cartoon

was shown

was shown

in cinemas in 1940.
（4）寫出文中畫線部分（D）和（E）的同義詞或近義詞：

following

following

；

about

about

（5）找出制作 Tom and Jerry 卡通片的兩個(gè)人的全名：

William Hanna

William Hanna

；

Joseph Barbera

Joseph Barbera