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【题目】A set of textbook designed to help high school student learn about Chinese traditional culture is to be published soon, Beijing Times reported on Monday.

The books are the first national-level works of their kind and have been developed by a working group that promotes traditional culture. They will be used by students from autumn this year, the report said.

The set contains four classics from ancient times. Two of the works, The Confucian Analects and Mencius, are for 10th-grade students, while the other two, Great Learning and Dao De Jing, will be used by 11th graders.

The initiative follows a series of steps the authorities have taken in recent years to spread and promote traditional Chinese culture on campus.

Last April, the Ministry of Education released a series of guidelines requiring the inclusion of more information about traditional culture in primary and middle school textbooks, especially those used for subjects such as Chinese Language, history, art and physical education.

The guidelines said students’ knowledge of traditional culture will be tested in the senior high school entrance examination and the gaokao, the college entrance exam.

【写作内容】1 用约30个单词写出上文的概要

2 用约120个单词就“高中生学国学”这一主题发表你的观点，内容包括：

（1）国学入高中的缘由

（2）你对这一举动的看法

【写作要求】1 阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句

2 作文中不能出现真实的姓名和学校名称

3 不必写标题

【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

Answer 1

【答案】

From this autumn, new schoolbooks highlighting the traditional Chinese culture will be used by senior students, whose knowledge of the country’s ancient traditions will also be tested in the gaokao.

There’re several factors accounting for the move. The set of books are the significant component of traditional Chinese culture and provide teenagers with internal codes of conduct and thus they will play a positive role in their process of growth. Besides, the basic education system hasn’t attached enough importance to the learning of traditional culture for quite a long time, and the textbooks are a beneficial effort to reverse that situation. In addition, learning traditional culture is not solely about reciting texts — it’s about utilizing ancient wisdom to solve current problems.

Personally, I strongly support and welcome the move in that it is an initiative to bring Chinese traditional culture back. However, considering individual differences between students, I am not in complete agreement with the practice that they will be tested in the gaokao.

【解析】

试题分析：考查开放性作文写作，本文提供了一段文字，要求学生先用30个词左右总结这段文字，考查学生的总结能力，注意不能照抄原文。接着，要求对上述文字中的现象发表自己的看法，主要包括两点：（1）国学入高中的缘由，（2）你对这一举动的看法，这又恢复到了比较传统的作文模式套路。注意在写作过程中运用高级词汇和句式。

【亮点说明】文章使用了很好的短语：highlight强调，accounting for，component of，play a positive role in，attached enough importance to，a beneficial effort to，reverse，utilize利用，an initiative to主动作为，in complete agreement with，并且有很多值得借鉴和学习的句型：whose knowledge of the country’s ancient traditions will also be tested in the gaokao.定语从句， thus they will play a positive role in their process of growth.原因状语从句。同时，使用了Besides，In addition等连接词使得文章条理更加清晰。