1 Choose the best words or expressions and complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文。) Long ago, everything on the Earth was asleep. Nothing moved. Nothing grew. (One day the Rainbow Serpent(彩蛇)woke from her sleep and came out from under the ground.
She travelled a long way but finally got 2 because she was alone and so she returned to the place where she had first appeared, and called to the frogs. "Come out！"
The frogs appeared one by one. It was difficult for them to move forward because stomachs were 3 water, which they had stored in their sleep. The Rainbow Serpent tickled(挠疼)the frogs and, when they 4 , water ran all over the Earth and that is how lakes and rivers were formed.
Because there was water, all the animals 5 , and the grass and trees grew. The animals followed the Rainbow Serpent across the land. They were happy. Each lived and collected food with other animals of the same kind.
At first, all the animals behaved well, but some started making 6 , and so the Rainbow Serpent made rules that they all had to obey.
The Rainbow Serpent said, ""Those who obey my rules will get a reward(奖贫). I will turn them into humans. Those who don't obey my rules will be punished(惩罚)and turned into stone, and will never be able to on the Earth again. "
The bad animals became stone and turned into mountains and hills, and those who obeyed the rules were turned into humans, and lived with others of the same kind happily on the Earth.
