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浙江省温州市2020年中考英语试卷
The balalaika, also called the "Russian guitar", is a traditional Russian musical instrument. It has a long neck, a wooden triangle-shaped body and strings. It is usually used to play Russian music by plucking* the strings with fingers or a pick.
Russians like the balalaika. The music played with it can be cheerful, as if the farmers were dancing happily to celebrate their harvest It can also be energetic, as if the workers were working hard to make their country richer and stronger. If a Russian moves to live or work abroad, he will probably take a balalaika with him. When he feels lonely and sad, he will play it to cheer himself up.
The balalaika was originally played by the poor in Russia. At that time, balalaikas were made by the players themselves. They were rough, simple and cheap with different numbers of strings, from two to even six. Later a Russian musician Vasily Vasil'yevich Andreev (1861-1918) improved the balalaka. He created a whole family of balalaikas of different sizes, all with three strings. The smallest balalaika is called Prima. It is 60-70cm long. The biggest, Contrabass, is almost 2metres high with a leg to sit on the floor. Andreev founded the first balalaika orchestra* in the world, mainly using balalaikas to perform. He gave concerts at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1889, which was a great success.
Today, there are blalaika groups performing around the world. More and more people get to know the balalaika and are attracted by its Russian style music.
1. Cuba is in North America. The climate (气候) in Cuba is good. It has two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season. The dry season and the rainy season each last for six months. 2. The dry season is from November to April. The average temperatures in this season are between 22℃and 25℃. The average rainfall is 62 mm. It is windy and sunny in the dry season. 3. The rainy season is from May to October. In the rainy season the average temperatures are between 26℃ and 28℃. The average rainfall in the rainy season is 146 mm. It is often cloudy. 4. The best time to visit Cuba is April or May. |
Rhyme in Songs Dear kids, welcome to my lesson! Do you like singing or writing songs? Today we are going to learn about rhyme(押韵)in songs. What is rhyme in songs? One way to learn about a song is to look at its rhyme. Rhyming words are words that sound the same, such as cat/hat, or lying/crying. This makes the song sound nicer and more musical. How to understand rhyme in songs? When a song has rhyming words at the end of lines, these are called "end rhymes". Here is an example of end rhyme: My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. Here are three different cat songs, each with a different rhyme way. The first is AABB, the second is ABAB, and the third is ABCB):
Exercise: Sing the following song and write down the rhyme way for the song: ____. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky.
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