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A. How much did you understand? 

The right order of these sentences is 2, 3, 1.

People used to go to the river and collect fruit from the birabira tree.

They were putting birabira fruit into the water. 

They were waiting to catch the fish.

The right order of these sentences is 6, 5, 4.

The river was not a river now. It was a great sea.

Then the waters came together again, over the heads of the people.

Now the people changed. Some of them became elephants. Some became crocodiles.

B. The fruit from the birabira tree.

1. 1/b. They put the fruit in the river. The fruit confused the fish.
2. 2/a. The people were frightened. They wanted to run away.
3. 3/c. And some of them grew long tails.  They were monkeys.

C. Missing words

1. There was water to the left, and water to the right. But in the middle was a path.
2. Then the waters came together again, over the heads of the people.
3. Now the people changed. Some of them became elephants. Some became crocodiles.
4. The animals stayed in the water. They built houses there.