期末专题09 任务型阅读 2023-2024学年 牛津上海版（试用本）八年级英语上册

期末专题09 任务型阅读 2023-2024学年 牛津上海版（试用本）八年级英语上册 （文字版 _ 含答案解析） Around the world, people have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals. 3.Traditional foods also show a new year of good luck and good health. An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey, and it also includes pies and plum puddings (李子布丁). In Germany, Christmas is celebrated with bread cookies and cakes, which are made like Christmas trees. In France, Christmas dessert is a cake filled with butter cream. In southern parts of India, there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It includes rice and a dish of rice cooked with sugar that is shared with families and friends. Japan celebrates New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from January 1st. Food is prepared before the festival so people don’t need to cook during the festival. On New Year’s Day, various dishes called Osechi ryori(御节料理) are served—each dish is a wish for the New Year. 4. In most Asian countries, the New Year begins with the first full moon of the first Chinese Lunar (阴历的) month. Each place has its special food to welcome the coming year: People in China prepare their food ahead of time to avoid the possibility that using a knife during New Year’s time might “cut luck”, Foods with lucky names are popular, such as fish, which sounds like “surplus (剩余)”. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。 1．What did a three-festival in mid-January in southern parts of India? 2．In Japan, what do people all like eating on New year’s Day ? B．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。 3． 4． C． 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。 5． 阅读短文，根据题目要求完成各小题。 (A) It is everyone’s duty (任务，职责) to help animals to stop extinction (灭绝). As a student, there are so many things you can do yourself too! Please look at the following suggestions to help the en