专题10 任务型阅读20篇（各地期中期末真题精选）2023-2024学年八年级英语期末总复习高分突破

专题11 任务型阅读20篇 一、阅读回答问题 （2023上·江苏南通·八年级统考期中）请认真阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。 As an old Chinese saying goes, the Spring Festival comes right after the Laba Festival, so get ready for a bowl of Laba porridge. Today, people across China are celebrating the Laba Festival. It is a traditional Chinese festival. It’s on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is an important festival for Chinese people. To us, it means the traditional start of celebrations for the Spring Festival. The Laba Festival is a day of thanks for a good harvest. On this day, people usually eat Laba porridge, a porridge with eight kinds of mixed grains (谷物). Today many temples in some areas still have the tradition of giving out Laba porridge to the public. The porridge is believed to bring luck and joy. The festival is also the day for people to put garlic (蒜) in vinegar (醋). This Laba garlic will be eaten with dumplings on Chinese New Year’s Day. While in the past, it was used to let people remember to pay back the money they had borrowed, as Laba is near the end of the year and in Chinese garlic sounds the same as “calculate”(算). Customs are quite different across the country. People in Qianxian, East China’s Anhui Province, eat the Laba tofu a few days before. In Xining City, Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, people eat porridge with beef and mutton. 1．When is the Laba Festival? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 2．What does the Laba Festival mean to Chinese people? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3．What is the Laba porridge like? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 4．Why did people eat garlic in vinegar in the past? ________________________________________________________________________________________ 5．How do you like the Laba Festival? (请自拟一句话回答) _________________________________________________________________________________