Question

【題目】請閱讀下面短文，并按照要求用英語寫一篇150詞左右的文章。

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 （俚語） terms add a further simplification: the use of pinyin acronyms （首字母縮略詞）. “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 （健忘癥）

（寫作內容）

1. 用約30個單詞概述上文年輕人使用網絡語言的現象；

2. 用約120個單詞發表你的觀點，內容包括：

談談你的看法，并用23個理由或論據支撐你的看法。

（寫作要求）

1. 寫作過程中不能直接引用原文語句；

2. 作文中不能出現真實姓名和學校名稱；

3. 不必寫標題。

（評分標準）

內容完整，語言規范，語篇連貫，詞數適當。

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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】

這是一篇議論文。青少年希望與父母不同，所以他們自然會創造并使用自己的語言來表達這一點。年輕人這樣做確實推動了語言的變化。它們并不是影響語言發展的唯一因素，但它們確實可以改變后代的交流方式。

第一步，明確任務。認真閱讀命題，弄清任務和要求。很明顯，任務一是“概括短文的內容要點”。注意:概括階段并不需要加上個人的見解。任務二是“發表你的看法”。你可以同意或者反對文章觀點，也可以對文章的各種觀點進行折中。

第二步，概括轉述所給的短文的大意。對短文進行概括是一個獲取信息、加工信息的過程，需要嚴謚的思維和準確的表達能力，而且要使用自己的語言來表達，“不要抄襲閱讀材料中的句子”。因此，“概括短文的內容要點”，實為客觀簡要地轉述作者的觀點、論據和結論。（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，發表你的觀點，并用23個理由或論據支撐你的看法。（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.）