What's the matter with choosing one of two essays for the Beijing High School Entrance Examination?

“It’s much simpler than trying one model and two models!” Just after 11 o’clock this morning, the high school entrance examination students walked out of the examination room one after another and completed their Chinese subjects. Many candidates said that Chinese language in the high school entrance examination focuses on the basics, there are no partial questions, and "it's easy to answer questions."

Choose one from two for both large and small essays

This year's high school entrance examination is still "choose one from two" for both large and small essays.

Among them, the first major essay uses "__ is most important in truth" as a clue, requiring candidates to complete the essay, form a topic, and write an article, regardless of style. Another question continues last year's test of students' imagination. Suppose you walk into a mysterious forest kingdom and can understand the language of the flowers, plants and trees there, the conversations of birds, fish and insects, the conversations of springs, mountains and rocks, and you can also communicate with them. Communicate and live together...With this as the background, candidates are required to imagine the stories that may happen between each other and their own gains. They draft their own questions and write a narrative essay.

The essay is based on the background of a class reunion where everyone recalled the games they played as children with great interest. The candidates are asked to describe a game that once brought them happiness. The test questions include chess, riddles, and puzzles. , origami, flying kites, playing diabolo, kicking shuttlecock, hide and seek, etc. to provide candidates with ideas. Another topic is still "Look at Pictures and Talk". Six comic strips tell the origin of the "Silk Road": more than 2,000 years ago, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty recruited envoys to go to the Western Regions. Zhang Qian resolutely accepted the recruitment, and then went through many twists and turns to open up the East-West trade route. Made outstanding contributions. The question pointed out that the class will hold a class meeting with the theme of "Telling Historical Stories and Praising Chinese Civilization", and candidates are asked to write a speech based on the comic strip.

We learned from randomly interviewed candidates that they were well prepared for the types of essay questions, especially the "__ is true" in the big essay and the "childhood game" in the short essay, which made the candidates feel There is something to write.

The scope of the test of reading classics has become wider

This year’s Chinese language test questions further reflect the test of reading classics. Compared with previous years, there are four obvious changes in this year’s classics reading test. One is to pay more attention to the examination of the reading effect of the whole book. For example, let students find the central character from a famous book they have read, and combine the whole book to explain how this character plays a central role in the work. The second is to focus on testing the understanding of the thoughts of the work. For example, let students choose one of the six chapters of "The Analects" to talk about their understanding of Confucius' thoughts. The third is to focus on examining students' personal feelings after reading famous works, for example, asking students to talk about the inspiration they gained by relating the relevant content in "Robinson Crusoe". The fourth is to expand the test scope of classics reading. In the past, the test papers generally only covered three classics in the classics reading section. This year, in the "Basics·Application" section, there is also a test on the reading content of classics. Even in the modern reading, students are required to answer the test questions in connection with the relevant literary works they have read.

Experts from the Beijing Educational Examination Agency said that such changes will help further guide students into classics and help correctly guide the teaching of classics reading.

Focus on tradition and subject connections

According to feedback from candidates, the Chinese language test questions in the high school entrance examination also have many reflections on traditional culture. Elements such as "Lao She's former residence", "Yan style and Liu style of calligraphy" and "Couplets" have all entered the Chinese language test questions in the high school entrance examination.

In addition, this year’s Chinese test questions also reflect the test of Chinese ability in the interconnection of disciplines. Experts from the Beijing Educational Examination Authority said that the multi-text reading section in this year's test paper reflects this. This section selects reading materials about "new energy", which involves knowledge of solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, renewable energy, environmental protection and other physical and geographical subjects. "The test questions allow students to not only explain 'new energy' but also make judgments on the development of 'new energy' based on reading the text and combining relevant subject knowledge. These are all comprehensive examinations based on the background knowledge of relevant subjects." students’ language proficiency,” experts said.

72,000 candidates attended the examination room

The high school entrance examination and summer general high school entrance examination will be held at the same time from today to the 26th. According to statistics, there are 72,000 candidates taking the high school entrance examination and 53,000 candidates taking the college entrance examination. The city has 17 examination areas, including 168 high school entrance examination sites, 2,496 examination rooms, 86 general examination examination sites, 4,000 examination sessions, involving 115,000 subjects in nine subjects.

It is understood that the Municipal Education Commission and the Examination Yuan, with the strong support and cooperation of the public security, transportation, electric power, health and other units, have strengthened the comprehensive improvement of the examination environment, including transportation, noise management, health and epidemic prevention, Comprehensive protection is provided in terms of heatstroke prevention and cooling. The municipal and district examination management departments strictly organize and implement the examination, and take the examination style and discipline seriously. While doing a good job in examination work, we further optimize service measures, put candidates first, provide services around candidates, and at the same time, provide personalized services for candidates with special difficulties. We strive to create a fair, honest and harmonious examination environment for candidates.

I wish all candidates to perform at their best and relax and have a good holiday!