Question

【题目】（福建省厦门市2015年中考）短文写作。

假设你是思考，你的美国笔友Lucy来信想了解曹冲称象的故事。请根据如下图片及要点提示用英语写一封80词以上的回信给她。

内容要点：1. 回信目的

2. 故事简介

3. 故事给你的启示

注意：1.信中不允许出现与考生本人相关的真实姓名和校名等信息。

2. 信的开头已给出，不计入总次数。

3. 参考词汇：scale n.称; calculate v.计算

Dear Lucy,

I learn from your letter that…

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Answer 1

【答案】

Dear Lucy,

I learn from your letter that you are very interested in the story of Cao Chong weighed the elephant. Let me tell you：

Once somebody sent Cao Chong's father, Cao Cao, an elephant and he wanted to know its weight, but there was nothing big enough to weigh it．Cao Chong told his father he could weigh the elephant if he had a big boat and a lot of heavy stones．Cao Cao was very surprised, but he still ordered his men to get everything ready．When they led the elephant down into the boat, the water came up, then Cao Chong marked the water line．Then they drove the elephant onto the bank and put the heavy stones in the boat until the water came up to the same line．At last, Cao Chong told the men to weigh the stones．In this way, he weighed the elephant.

I think Cao Chong is very clever. If we think hard before doing things, we can do them better.

Yours

Thought

【解析】

试题分析：本文要求给美国笔友回信，给她讲述曹冲称象的故事，要求写出回信的目的，结合图片提示简介故事并要写出故事给人的启示。回信的目的和故事的启示用一般现在时态，故事简介用一般过去时态。故事按动作先后顺序进行写作，用第三人称形式。

写作亮点：书信第一段表明写信目的：讲述曹冲称象的故事，开门见山，直奔主题。第二段讲述曹冲称象的故事，用and, but, when ,then , at last等引出故事，层次清楚，语言表达准确，want to do, enough to do, order sb to do, tell sb to do sth等动词不定式短语使用得当。第三段简明扼要，说明只要肯动脑，就可以把事情做好，表达了向曹冲学习的想法，突出并升华了故事主题。