Question

【题目】请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Is youth lingo ruining the Chinese language?

Young people often create their own language that goes beyond rigid linguistic rules. This year's latest slang （俚语） terms add a further simplification: the use of pinyin acronyms （首字母缩略词）. “Awsl,” in pinyin, for instance,means “Ah, wo si le” （Oh, I'm gonna die）, and is used if something is too cute or adorable to bear. “Pyq” stands for “pengyou quan”，the social feed on the popular Chinese social media app WeChat, and “nsdd” stands for “ni shuo de dui” （you're right）.

Teens want to be different from their parents, so it's natural for them to create and use their own linguistic terms to show that. In doing so, young people are indeed driving linguistic change. They aren't the only factor influencing language development, but they can indeed transform how future generations communicate.

Critics fear that Chinese internet slang will have the potential to negatively influence broader linguistic trends of Mandarin Chinese, in particular, the gradual taking over of pinyin. As pinyin gets widely used when texting or writing on mobile phone or computer, while less and less people write characters by hand, people gradually forget how to write them. The phenomenon has got a name in China: Character amnesia （健忘症）

（写作内容）

1. 用约30个单词概述上文年轻人使用网络语言的现象；

2. 用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：

谈谈你的看法，并用23个理由或论据支撑你的看法。

（写作要求）

1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

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。

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Answer 1

【答案】Nowadays, young people often create some new slangs to differentiate themselves. However, with the rapid development of Internet lingo, many critics, especially the seniors, believe that the emergence of such lingo will damage the foundation of Chinese language.

In my opinion, it is not necessary to worry about the new slang that will likely weaken the new generation’s capability of writing or remembering Chinese characters. There are two reasons. Firstly, the purpose of language is to convey ideas and share opinions. Thus, the prevailing youth lingo,as a more concise and efficient way of expression, is in fact an enrichment of modern Chinese language. Secondly, since every era has its own young generation,the youth lingo, can be a new indentity for young people ,cannot pollute or extinct Chinese language but by contrast, it may become an emblem or living fossil of this specific era.

To conclude, while language development is inevitable, Chinese internet lingo is unlikely to replace the existing use of Mandarin Chinese but will be enriching it by adding a new layer or dimension to it.

【解析】

这是一篇议论文。青少年希望与父母不同，所以他们自然会创造并使用自己的语言来表达这一点。年轻人这样做确实推动了语言的变化。它们并不是影响语言发展的唯一因素，但它们确实可以改变后代的交流方式。

第一步，明确任务。认真阅读命题，弄清任务和要求。很明显，任务一是“概括短文的内容要点”。注意:概括阶段并不需要加上个人的见解。任务二是“发表你的看法”。你可以同意或者反对文章观点，也可以对文章的各种观点进行折中。

第二步，概括转述所给的短文的大意。对短文进行概括是一个获取信息、加工信息的过程，需要严谥的思维和准确的表达能力，而且要使用自己的语言来表达，“不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子”。因此，“概括短文的内容要点”，实为客观简要地转述作者的观点、论据和结论。（Nowadays, young people often create some new slangs to differentiate themselves. However, with the rapid development of Internet lingo, many critics, especially the seniors, believe that the emergence of such lingo will damage the foundation of Chinese language.）

第三步，发表你的观点，并用23个理由或论据支撑你的看法。（Firstly, the purpose of language is to convey ideas and share opinions. Secondly, since every era has its own young generation,the youth lingo, can be a new indentity for young people ,cannot pollute or extinct Chinese language but by contrast, it may become an emblem or living fossil of this specific era.）