题目内容
People often have the impression that Chinese characters are extremely difficult to learn. In fact, if you were to try to learn how to write Chinese characters, you would find that they are not nearly as difficult as you may have imagined. And they certainly qualify as forming one of the most attractive, beautiful, logical(合乎逻辑的), and scientifically constructed(构造) writing systems in the world. Each stroke(笔画) has its own special significance. If you are familiar with the rules of Chinese characters, you will find it very easy to remember even the most complicated looking character, and never miss a stroke.
The earliest known examples of Chinese written characters in their developed form are carved into tortoise shells and ox bones. The majority of these characters are pictographs. Archaeologists of various countries have learned that most early writing systems went through a pictographic stage, as did the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Most writing systems, however, eventually developed a phonetic(表示语音的) alphabet to represent the sounds of spoken language rather than visual images observed in the physical world.
One notable feature of Chinese characters is the "radical." "Radical" in English means "root". For example, the characters yu "language," shuo "talk," i "discuss," "opinion," and lun "discuss" all share the yen radical, which means "language," and gives the reader a clue to the meaning of the character as a whole. The characters hsiu "rotten," shan "cedar," " t'ao "peach," and lin "forest," all contain the mu "wood" or "tree" radical, indicating one of their shared key characteristics. If you know the radical of a character, you can usually get a general idea of the meaning of the character it is a part of. Although there is a theoretical total of almost 50,000 written Chinese characters, only about 5,000 of these are frequently used; and the total number of radicals is only 214. So learning to read and write Chinese is not nearly so formidable a task as it may at first seem.
1.According to the author, Chinese characters are ________.
A. extremely difficult to learn
B. scientifically constructed
C. difficult to remember
D. as difficult as you may have imagined
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. There are rules in forming the Chinese characters.
B. Some strokes are more important than others.
C. All the Chinese characters are pictographs.
D. Some writing systems eventually developed a phonetic alphabet.
3.The passage is mainly about ________.
A. pictographs
B. the strokes of the Chinese characters
C. the Chinese writing system
D. the radical of the Chinese characters
书面表达
现在越来越多的广告出现在报纸、广播、杂志甚至街头,人们对此有不同的看法。请你根据以下提供的信息,写一篇短文,并发表你的观点(至少两条)。
赞 成 | 反 对 |
1. 广告能拓宽人们对货物的选择 2. 使消费者更好地了解货物和商家 3. 不仅能够获得商品知识,也能得到艺术享受 | 1. 经常被虚假广告欺骗 2. 阅读广告上浪费了大量的时间 3. 看电视剧时插播广告特让人心烦 |
你的观点:1. 2. | |
注意:1. 字数120词左右。
2. 可能用到的词汇:
消费者 consumer 误导的 misleading
虚假的 false 恼人的,令人心烦的 annoyed
工商局 Industrial and Commercial Bureau. 发布 issue
3.短文的开头已给出,不计入总字数。
With the development of advertising, ads have been connected with people’s life. Last week, the students in our class had a discussion about
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