专题05 任务型阅读15篇-2023中考英语逆袭冲刺名校模拟真题特快专递（天津专用）

2023天津中考英语逆袭冲刺 名校模拟真题特快专递 第二期 专题05 任务型阅读15篇 （2022·天津红桥·模拟预测）阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成句子。 American modern music is popular with people. There are three main kinds of modern music in the United States. One of them is country music. It comes from the countryside in the south of America. Country music is simple and we can relax ourselves when we listen to it. It tells us about the everyday life and the feelings of the people. The second kind of American modern music is blues（布鲁斯）. What can we get from this kind of music? Blue has the meaning of “sadness”. So we can taste the sad feelings in blues. And we can also learn about Black Americans’ life. The last one is American rock music. It is a new way of music. It first came out in the way of rock and roll in the 1950s. Since then, there have been many ways of rock music: hard rock, soft rock and so on. Many young people like playing this kind of music. 1．There are three main kinds of modern music in America. They are ___________________ . 2．Country music is from the countryside __________ America. 3．Country music is simple and we can feel __________ when listening to it. 4．We can taste __________ in blues. 5．Rock music first came out in the way of rock and roll __________. （2022·天津南开·二模）阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成句子。 In Chinese culture, the color red stands for many good things, for example, happiness. But writing names and letters with red pens is usually avoided. Why? In ancient times, red was the symbol of power. Not everyone could write with red pens—only emperors. They would reply to officials’ memorials (奏折) with red pens. The red ink that emperors used was made of cinnabar (朱砂). Writing with red pens was also related to death. In ancient China, the criminals who were sentenced to death (被判死刑) signed their names with red pens. The records of criminals’ names were all written in red words. Names on the tombstones were red as well. Therefore, it was thought to be unlucky to write names with red pens. Since red words carry bad meanings,