Analysis on the classification of applied essay questions in the high school entrance examination

Analysis on the classification of practical essay questions in the 2012 High School Entrance Examination

Author/Li Chuanpeng

1. Writing an opening statement

Example 1. (Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, 2012) The school youth league committee decided to hold a "May 4th" Youth Day cultural performance. If you are the host of this event, please write a few short opening remarks for the event. (It is required to use at least one rhetorical technique, and real place names, school names, and people’s names must not appear in the content)

Analysis

The opening line originally refers to the opening of an opera or some artistic performance A narration that introduces the topic, which is used as a metaphor for the beginning of an article or speech. The scope of the high school entrance examination includes speeches, meetings, reports, ceremonies, competitions, celebrations and other more formal group activities. When drafting the opening statement, first, you must closely follow the situation given by the title, start with time, place, people, events and other elements, analyze the inherent characteristics and meaning of each element, and solve the problem of "what to say"; second, compare the proposition requirements and the opening statement. Characteristics: organize the sentences that have been initially conceived to solve the problem of "how to say"; third, conform to the format of the opening statement, focus on the theme, be able to correctly use a rhetorical technique, and the sentences are smooth.

Reference answers

When the fragrance of flowers in May fills the entire campus, when the days of youth are like wind and dreams, the breeze blows gently, and you open your sleeping eyes; Hazy, you are waving your light wings. It is you who light up our longing eyes and paint colorful dreams in May. In this dream, there is the distant view of the makeup on the green building, the catkins pond in the light wind, the sound of the Qiang flute under the bright moon, and the longing for the long river in the desert. Today, we gather here to feel the shock that literature and art brings to our souls.

2. Drafting an IOU

Example 2. (Anhui Province, 2012) In order to beautify the environment with practical actions, Class 9 (1) participated in tree planting activities. The class borrowed 36 shovels and 8 buckets from the school general affairs office. Please write an IOU to the school general affairs office in the name of the class committee.

Analysis

The format of the IOU should generally meet the following points: 1. Write "IOU" in the middle of the first line, indicating that it is an IOU. 2. Leave two blank spaces at the beginning of line - to start writing the main text: who you are borrowing from, what you are borrowing, how much (numbers should be in capital letters), and when the items will be returned. 3. Finally, write down the unit, name and date of borrowing the things.

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3. Write an award speech

Example 3. (Ziyang City, Sichuan Province in 2012) Please use a short Use the language to introduce an advanced figure like Lei Feng that you know well, and write an award speech for him (the award speech uses at least one rhetorical method).

Example: (1) Character deeds: Alimu came to Bijie City, Guizhou Province 10 years ago and made a living by grilling mutton skewers. There were many poor children in Bijie who could not afford to go to school, so Alimu decided to use the money earned from kebabs to support poor students. Over the past eight years, Alimu has donated more than 100,000 yuan saved from selling more than 300,000 skewers of mutton to support hundreds of poor students. Many netizens were moved by his story and affectionately called him "the kebab philanthropist."

(2) Award speech: Happy Alimu sang loudly in the street market filled with fireworks. Suffering did not cool his zeal, reputation could not change his faith. One person's simplest compassion stirs up ripples of kindness among the crowd.

(1) Characters and deeds: _________

(2) Award speech: _________

Analysis

When writing the award speech, please pay attention to the following Several aspects: (1) Use freehand brushwork to highlight touching points. It refers to looking at the big picture, grasping the most important admirable deeds of the characters, briefly summarizing them, highlighting the moving points of the characters, and then outlining the full character image to achieve the artistic effect of emotional people. (2) Excavation in depth to highlight typicality. This is the focus and difficulty of writing award speeches. Through the typical deeds of the characters, the evaluation of the character's spirit is elicited and the typicality is demonstrated.

Therefore, in the award speech, it is necessary to reflect the shining soul and personality charm of the subject, or the strong will and ideological quality of the character. (3) Comprehensive expression, integrating things, reason and emotions. The expressions of award speeches are mainly narrative, argumentative and lyrical. These three expressions require comprehensive use. The deeds, spirit and praise of the characters are organically integrated together, so that they are in perfect harmony and become interesting naturally.

Reference answers

(1) Wu Bin, an ordinary bus driver in Hangzhou, was driving a long-distance bus from Wuxi to Hangzhou and was driving smoothly on the highway. Suddenly, something happened outside the car. A piece of iron flew through the windshield and hit him in the abdomen. (High School Entrance Examination Essay) In order to prevent the bus from losing control, Master Wu endured extreme pain and completed a series of braking procedures with amazing perseverance: holding the steering wheel steady, manually braking, turning on the car's double flashers, and parking the car safely on the side of the road. And remind passengers on the bus not to get off the bus at will. In just a few seconds, the safety of the 24 passengers in the car was ensured. Three days later, Master Wu left us due to serious injuries.

(2) Ordinary career, noble life. At the critical moment, he endured the severe pain. You used the last 1 minute and 16 seconds of your life to perfectly interpret the responsibility and responsibility of being an ordinary driver. You used your life to set a shining example for us of sticking to your post and sacrificing yourself for others. Wu Bin - you are a well-deserved civilian hero.

4. Writing a Proposal

Example 4. (Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, 2012) The Youth League Committee of the school plans to issue an initiative to promote virtues to all teachers and students in the school. Please write the following unfinished draft Add two specific contents to the proposal.

A letter of proposal to all teachers and students of the school:

It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation to pick up gold without hesitation, to help the weak, and to sacrifice oneself for others. In order to promote virtue, inherit civilization, and create a new campus atmosphere, we hereby issue the following initiatives to everyone:

1. Take to the streets, go deep into the community, and publicize the importance of virtue.

2. _________.

3. _________.

Teachers and classmates, let us take active actions to let the flowers of virtue bloom all over the campus and beyond, and across the country.

Yanhai Middle School Youth League Committee

June 16, 2012

Analysis

You need to pay attention to two points when writing a good proposal: 1. It is to write down the background reason and purpose. The issuance of an initiative is important in arousing widespread response. Only by clearly explaining the reasons for the initiative, as well as various background facts at the time, and stating the purpose of issuing the initiative, will people understand and be convinced and take conscious action. The second is to state the specific content and requirements of the initiative. The content of the initiative must be specific. What kind of activities are carried out, what things are done, and what are the specific requirements? What is its value and significance? The specific content of the initiative is generally listed in sections and is clear and specific.

Reference answers

① Dedicate love, help those in need, and try our best to help poor out-of-school children return to class.

② Respect the old and love the young, start with me, and actively participate in community welfare activities.

5. Drafting slogans

Example 5. (Rizhao City, Shandong Province, 2012) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Comrade Lei Feng’s sacrifice and commemorates the 49th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s inscription “Learn from Comrade Lei Feng”. The school youth league committee has launched the "Lei Feng is in my heart, helping others first" activity. Please write a promotional slogan for this activity.

Analysis

Pay attention to the following points when using slogans: 1. Neat sentence structure, concise language, use dual sentences, and the simpler the text, the better. 2. The language is popular and the wording is vivid. It should be as easy to understand, clear and accurate as possible, touching, lively and lively. Avoid using flowery words, especially polysemy. 3. Use rhetoric skillfully to express feelings. Generally speaking, the rhetorical techniques commonly used in slogans include duality, metaphor, comparison, parallelism, repetition, etc. Sometimes, exaggeration, questions, rhetorical questions, etc. can also be used. 4. Healthy, active, kind and friendly. Slogans with vulgar taste will be difficult to score in exams. Therefore, when we write slogans, we must be positive, healthy, friendly, and popular with most people.

Reference answers

①Inherit the fine traditions and carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng.

② Learn from Lei Feng, establish new trends, and strive to be the messenger of campus civilization.

6. Write a self-recommendation

Example 6. (Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, 2012) After the "burden reduction", your school established the Chenxi Literary Society, and you actively participated. The Literary Society will be recruiting column editors. Please choose one of the columns from Youth Wind Chimes, Poetic Life, and Hundreds of Schools of Thought, and recommend yourself to Teacher Wang.

Requirements: ① Focus on your wishes and abilities, or your initial thoughts on doing the column; ② About 50 words; ③ The real school name or person’s name must not appear.

Analysis

Self-recommendations focus on "self-introduction", the purpose is to make people know and like them. To answer this question, you must first have a title, a greeting, and a self-introduction; have your own wishes and abilities or a preliminary idea for the column. Secondly, write down your own understanding of the column, original methods and your own abilities. The final statement can be a combination of long and short sentences, but it must be full of emotion.

Reference answers

Hello, Teacher Wang! I am XX in class X, and I would like to apply for the position of editor of the "Poetic Life" column. When I was in elementary school, I loved reading and writing poetry. When I got to junior high school, I read and wrote more. My classmates called me "the little poet." If I can be hired as the editor of the "Poetic Life" column, I will definitely work hard to run this column well.

7. Writing text messages

Example 7. (Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, 2012) Xiaohua’s family has several acres of farmland, and his parents took advantage of the slack to work in nearby cities. According to what you have learned from the above For the phenological phenomena and Taizhou weather forecast information learned in the picture, please send them a reminder text message as Xiaohua.

Analysis

First of all, carefully observe the pictures provided in the test questions and read the information from the pictures, that is, the weather will be good for three days, so parents who go out to work can come back to harvest wheat. When writing, you must have creative thinking skills, be good at using novel forms, unique words, and clever rhetoric to express your true feelings, and strive to achieve an organic combination of theme and innovation, and a perfect unity of form and content.

Reference answer

Dad, Mom, the wheat at home has matured, and the weather has been good in the past three days (the weather will change in three days). Suitable for harvesting, will you come back?