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2022年中考英语必考题型终极押题(江苏通用)-完形填空
(2022·广东佛山·一模)通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在每小题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。
Guqin, guzheng, pipa, erhu, xiao and chine (编钟) are all traditional Chinese musical instruments. They are ____1____ of Chinese culture.
To many Chinese, playing traditional Chinese musical instruments may seem a bit old-fashioned. But some ____2____ like to take these instruments. They are trying to ____3____ these instruments to the modern world. They ____4____ them with modern sounds.
One of these artists is Brad Seippel from the US city of New Orleans. When he was 12, his father ____5____ him to play the bass guitar. At 24, he went to China and learned to play the pipa. “A bass guitar has four strings (弦), and so does the pipa. So it was ____6____ for me to play the pipa,” he said.
Seippel’s music is mainly electronic and ____7____ quite modern. But the pipa adds something ____8____ to his music, which makes it more interesting.
Another one who does like Brad is a heavy metal band, Nine Treasures, from