Question

According to a new study by a Chinese newspaper, many young Chinese people are forgetting how to write their traditional Chinese characters. It is quite common that most Chinese school children grow up remembering more than 3,000 Chinese characters. However, the study shows they seldom need to write them by hand and are forgetting these characters. Instead, young people today are using their mobile phones and computers to write in a system called “pinyin” on the key board. A list of characters then appears on the screen for the writer to pick out the right one. The report said 83% of the 2,072 respondents (调查对象) have problems writing characters, while 43% said they only write when they need to sign something.

The problem is that they often take up their pens and forget the characters. Chinese characters are the oldest writing system in use in the world. They date back over 3,000 years. University student Li Hanwei, 21, said, “I can remember the shape, but I can’t remember the strokes (笔划) when I need to write it. It’s a bit of a problem. ” The phenomenon is common in China as well as in Japan, where Chinese characters are also used in writing.

【写作内容】

1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容；

2. 以约120个词就“Don’t forget Chinese characters” 为题，写一篇短文，内容包括如下要点：

（1）简述汉字的遗忘现象;

（2）简析遗忘汉字的原因；

（3）我们应如何防止遗忘汉字，传承中华文化。

【写作要求】

你可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

Answer

A study shows many Chinese people are forgetting how to write Chinese characters due to the fact that people seldom write them by hand and use “pinyin” system too often.

This phenomenon is becoming very common in our daily life. When it comes to writing something on paper, we may forget the exact strokes of the character. Sometimes we are able to recall the shape of the character, but we just can’t write it down correctly.

With the development of science and technology, we tend to rely too much on our mobile phones and computers. And most of us just rely on “pinyin” system to select each character. As a result, we are keeping fewer and fewer Chinese characters in our minds.

As we all know, Chinese is the oldest writing system in use today and we should protect it from dying out. Therefore, we ought to try using pens rather than computers or mobile phones to write. Besides, doing more reading can also help us memorize characters.

【解析】

试题分析：本篇是一篇命题作文为““Don’t forget Chinese characters”，根据提示信息来写。写作时注意以下几点：1、仔细阅读有关提示，弄清试题提供的所有信息，明确有哪些要点。2、提纲是文章的总体框架，要在提纲的范围内进行分析、构思和想象。要依据提示情景或词语，按照一定逻辑关系来写，本文属于三段式文章：提出问题，分析问题，解决问题。3、根据要表达的内容确定句子的时态、语态；就本文而言应该用一般现在时态。 4.注意使用高级词汇和句式，以增加文章的亮点。

【亮点说明】本文结构紧凑，而且使用了多种句式和结构。文章第一段“A study shows many Chinese people are forgetting how to write Chinese characters due to the fact that people seldom write them by hand and use “pinyin” system too often.属于复合句，due to相当于because，the fact that……，是用that引导的同位语从句，整句话的意思是一个研究表明许多中国人都忘记了怎样写汉字，由于人们很少手写汉字并且频繁的用拼音打字系统这个事实。第三段“With the development of science and technology,”是用with引导的伴随状语，意思是随着科学技术的发展。本文还使用了大量短语，due to由于，When it comes to当提到……的时候，rely on依赖于，as a result结果，protect sth. from…保护某物免于……，As we all know，正如我们都知道的那样。最后一段的Besides另外，Therefore因此，两个连词的使用使文章条理更清晰，更紧凑。

考点：考查应用文写作。