九年级英语课文原文word版(2)(5)

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Full Moon, Full Feelings

Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes have the shape of a full moon on

mid-autumn night. They carry people 's wishes to ethsethfaemy liloive and miss.

There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang' e is the most touching. Chang ' e was Hou Ywiife.'AfstebreHaouutifYuli shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang ' e. Howevbear,daman, Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home.

Chang' e refused to give it to him and drank it all. Shecbaeme very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was