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范畴:人与社会 主题:语言文化 体裁:说明文 难度:★★★★ 建议用时:8分钟 评价: /9
Chinese is a beautiful but complex language, with tens of thousands of characters. When you come across a Chinese character that you don't know, what do you do? You may look it up in a dictionary and find its pinyin. Pinyin, a system that uses the Latin alphabet, tells us how to pronounce Chinese characters.
Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang and his team designed pinyin. They created the system to help illiterate Chinese people learn how to read. This idea worked out quite well. The illiteracy rate in China dropped from around 80 per cent in the 1950s to around 33.6 per cent in 1964. In 2010, it dropped to only 4.08 per cent.
Pinyin is useful in other ways too. It helps to promote the use of standard Chinese, or Mandarin, so that people who speak different dialects can still understand each other.
It's also much easier to type Chinese characters on computers and cellphones. Other methods, like the five-stroke input method, are much more difficult to use.
Pinyin is also finding its place in other languages. The Oxford English Dictionary now includes more than 100 pinyin entries, such as jiaozi for "dumplings" and zhongguomeng for "Chinese Dream".
Foreign media sometimes use pinyin in reports about China. Pinyin is not only a language tool, but also a cultural bridge that connects China to the world.
Pinyin
| What is it? | A system using the Latin alphabet to help people 1.
| --- | --- |
| 2.
| How is it
4.
• It helps promote the use
Mandarin so that people who speak different dialects can 6.
• It makes 7.
• Some pinyin words are now included as entries in English dictionaries, 8.
| Why does pinyin become more important in your daily life? (Introduce the importance of pinyin, at least 20 words.) 9.
KEY→P47
范畴:人与社会 主题:语言文化 体裁:说明文 难度:★★★★ 建议用时:8分钟 评价: /9
Chinese is a beautiful but complex language, with tens of thousands of characters. When you come across a Chinese character that you don't know, what do you do? You may look it up in a dictionary and find its pinyin. Pinyin, a system that uses the Latin alphabet, tells us how to pronounce Chinese characters.
Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang and his team designed pinyin. They created the system to help illiterate Chinese people learn how to read. This idea worked out quite well. The illiteracy rate in China dropped from around 80 per cent in the 1950s to around 33.6 per cent in 1964. In 2010, it dropped to only 4.08 per cent.
Pinyin is useful in other ways too. It helps to promote the use of standard Chinese, or Mandarin, so that people who speak different dialects can still understand each other.
It's also much easier to type Chinese characters on computers and cellphones. Other methods, like the five-stroke input method, are much more difficult to use.
Pinyin is also finding its place in other languages. The Oxford English Dictionary now includes more than 100 pinyin entries, such as jiaozi for "dumplings" and zhongguomeng for "Chinese Dream".
Foreign media sometimes use pinyin in reports about China. Pinyin is not only a language tool, but also a cultural bridge that connects China to the world.
Pinyin
| What is it? | A system using the Latin alphabet to help people 1.
learn
to pronounce Chinese characters. || --- | --- |
| 2.
Who
created it? | Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang and his 3. team
. || How is it
4.
helpful/useful
? | • It reduced the illiteracy rate in China, which dropped from around 80 per cent in the 1950s to 4.08 per cent in 5. 2010
.• It helps promote the use
Mandarin so that people who speak different dialects can 6. understand
each other.• It makes 7.
typing
Chinese characters on computers and cellphones easier.• Some pinyin words are now included as entries in English dictionaries, 8.
like
jiaozi and zhongguomeng. || Why does pinyin become more important in your daily life? (Introduce the importance of pinyin, at least 20 words.) 9.
It can help me learn more Chinese characters and make my study and life much easier and it helps spread Chinese culture to the world.
|答案
本文主要介绍了汉语拼音的起源、创造者及其作用。
1. learn 2. Who 3. team 4. helpful/useful 5. 2010
6. understand 7. typing 8. like 9. It can help me learn more Chinese characters and make my study and life much easier and it helps spread Chinese culture to the world.(答案不唯一,言之有理即可)
1. learn 2. Who 3. team 4. helpful/useful 5. 2010
6. understand 7. typing 8. like 9. It can help me learn more Chinese characters and make my study and life much easier and it helps spread Chinese culture to the world.(答案不唯一,言之有理即可)
