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【题目】阅读下面材料，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

A set of textbooks designed to help high school students learn about traditional Chinese 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 Confucian Analects and Mencius are for 10 th -grade students while the other two Great Learning and Dao De Jing will be used by 11 th 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:

⑴ 国学入高中的缘由；

⑵ 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】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 speaking, 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】

本文为议论文。首先用约 30 个单词写出所给文章的概要，再用约 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:⑴ 国学入高中的缘由；⑵ 你对这一举动的看法。

这是江苏高考英语常用的英语写作形式，综合考查考生阅读材料，识图和写作能力，有难度。可分三段来写。第一段按题目要求用约30个词简要概括写作材料的要点；第二段就“高中生学国学”这一主题发表你的观点，并说出国学入高中的缘由；最后一部分谈谈你对这一举动的看法。