2023年中考一轮复习 任务型阅读理解专题
话题 1节日
阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
A
The most lively days of spring have come. This year, the Spring Equinox (春分), the fourth of the 24 solar terms (节气), falls on March 20. It marks the point when daytime and night equally (平均地) divide the whole day.
After this day, daytime will last longer than night. Therefore, it is not only important in China, but also in many other countries around the world. Spring Equinox Day is a public holiday in Japan. In Iran, it is called “Nowruz”, which is also known as the Iranian New Year.
The Spring Equinox is the best time for going outside, admiring flowers and flying kites in China. There are also rituals (仪式) that have been kept over centuries, such as balancing eg
gs. The idea is that on Spring Equinox, Earth’s axis (轴) is perpendicular (垂直的) to the sun. So Earth is supposed to be more balanced on this day. It’s usually very difficult to balance an egg because the yolk (蛋黄) is off-center. But on Spring Equinox, it is believed that there are some special gravitational (引力的) forces that can help. However, this isn’t true. If you focus long enough, you can actually balance an egg on its end any day of the year. All you need is a lot of patience.
But balancing eggs is still a fun tradition for people. In some places, people paint the eggs in many colors and hold egg-balancing competitions. Do you want to give it a try?
1．When is the Spring Equinox this year?
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2．Why is the Spring Equinox so important in many countries?
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3．According to the passage, what can we do on Spring Equinox Day?
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4．Is it easier to balance eggs on Spring Equinox Day?
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5．How can we succeed balancing eggs?
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B
Reading is very important. World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It encourages people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of reading. It is also the day to honor great writers.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day, millions of school children can buy books at a much lower price than usual in any bookstore in England. It has been done every year since 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Young people should s
pend more time reading. Books can not change the world, but people can change the world by changing themselves through reading.
Reading helps us become more knowledgeable and smarter. Reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Reading gives us information about other cultures and places in the world. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English. We all know that it is difficult to learn everything in the classroom, for example, the ways English people are living and working today can be learnt by reading.
Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help us to know more about the outside world. Therefore, it is necessary for us to spend time reading every day.
6．When is World Book Day?
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7．What can the students do on that day in England?
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spring怎么读的英语8．Did people celebrate World Book Day in China?
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9．Why does World Book Day set up?
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10．What’s the passage mainly talking about?
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C
Many Chinese people will wonder what presents to get for their moms on Mother’s Day, but not many know Mother’s Day is actually a festival from foreign countries. Mother’s Day star
ted in America and spread to China in the 1980s. Now it is widely accepted.
Why does a foreign festival become popular in China? That’s probably because traditional Chinese culture always encourages love between parents and children. For example, the story of “Taste Medicine for Mother” tells us the filial(子女的) love of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty. His mother has been sick for three years. He often stayed up at her bedside and cared for her day and night. He tasted the medicine first before she drank it. The subject of “mother love” is also repeated in many Chinese ancient poems(诗), like “Song of the Parting Son(《游子吟》)” by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Now this touching poem is still a must in the school textbooks. Children in China grow up with the education of filial love.
On special days, people often use roses or forget-me-nots to express love. People think carnations(康乃馨) are the perfect flowers for mothers around the world, but few of them know that China has its own for mothers — the tiger lily.

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