Education Examinations Institute of the Ministry of Education: Comments on the Chinese National Paper of the 2023 College Entrance Examination

Cctv newsAccording to WeChat WeChat official account of the Education Examinations Institute of the Ministry of Education, in 2023, the Education Examinations Institute of the Ministry of Education ordered four sets of Chinese examination papers for the national college entrance examination, namely, National Volume A, National Volume B, New Curriculum Standard I and New Curriculum Standard II. The examination questions fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, implement the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, deepen the reform of examination content, promote the reform of basic education and teaching, and help cultivate top-notch innovative talents.

First, focus on the overall situation, based on the overall situation, Bacon casts a soul in the language situation.

  The examination questions are designed as a whole, the materials are carefully selected, the people are educated by literature, the things are moistened silently, and the spring breeze turns the rain into rain.

1 Hold high the banner of thought, Bacon casts the soul.

  The examination questions are organically integrated into Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. The two materials in the writing test "One flower alone is not spring" in the National Volume B are respectively from the keynote speech "Walking hand in hand on the road to modernization" delivered by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the high-level dialogue meeting with world political parties in the Communist Party of China (CPC) on March 15, 2023 and the speech "Civilizations are enriched by exchanges and civilizations are enriched by mutual learning" delivered at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France on March 27, 2014.

The national B-volume writing test "One flower alone is not spring"

22. Read the following materials and write as required. (60 points)

  Blowing out other people’s lights will not make you brighter; Blocking others’ way will not make you go further.

  "A single flower is not spring, and a hundred flowers bloom in spring." If there is only one kind of flower in the world, even if it is beautiful, it is monotonous.

  The above two materials are from the speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, which tells the general truth in vivid language. Please write an article based on this to reflect your understanding and thinking.

  Requirements: select the right angle, determine the concept, clarify the style, and draw up the title; Do not copy or copy; Do not disclose personal information; Not less than 800 words.

  Although the two materials are aimed at international relations, mutual learning of civilizations and other issues, the truth revealed is universal. Material 1 can be used in the relationship between countries and also in getting along with people. Material 2 illustrates the dialectical relationship between part and whole by "one flower" and "hundred flowers". The two materials simultaneously constitute a dialogue relationship. The test questions guide young people to cherish the greatness of the country and establish a correct world outlook and values. Candidates have a large writing space and can cut into many angles.

  The first material in the new curriculum standard Volume II, Modern Chinese Reading I, is taken from the speech "Talk about Investigation and Research" delivered by the Supreme Leader General Secretary at the opening ceremony of the second batch of students in the autumn semester of the Central Party School on November 16, 2011. The article emphasizes that investigation and research should adhere to the mass line and the principle of seeking truth from facts, so as to inspire the majority of young people to learn their wisdom and gain insights from the people’s creative practice.

2 cultivate feelings of home and country, enhance self-confidence.

  The test questions guide candidates to establish a correct view of history, nationality and country, and enhance patriotic feelings and national self-confidence. For example, the reading materials of Volume A discuss many archaeological discoveries, analyze the significance of archaeology in writing ancient history, and guide candidates to better understand the long-standing, profound Chinese civilization. The materials of classical Chinese reading test questions in Volume A and Volume B are selected from Longping Collection • Confucianism is righteous "and" Han Feizi • "Ten Years" guides candidates to inherit Chinese cultural genes, keep upright and not conservative, respect the ancient and not retro.

  The writing test "The Power of Stories" in Volume I of the new curriculum standard guides candidates to think about the facts, images, emotions and truths contained in the story as a carrier, and the significance of telling stories well. What is a good story, what story to tell well and how to tell a good story are all good writing angles. Candidates can write stories to inspire themselves, and also discuss how to tell the story of China well to the world.

New Curriculum Standard Volume I Writing Test "The Power of Stories"

23. Read the following materials and write as required. (60 points)

  Good stories can help us express and communicate better, touch our hearts and enlighten our wisdom; A good story can change a person’s fate and show the image of a nation … … Stories are powerful.

  What kind of association and thinking did the above materials cause you? Please write an article.

  Requirements: select the right angle, determine the concept, clarify the style, and draw up the title; Do not copy or copy; Do not disclose personal information; Not less than 800 words.

3 carry forward the spirit of labor, educate people and cultivate their hearts

  The examination questions emphasize the integration of labor education with moral education, intellectual education, physical education and aesthetic education, and guide candidates to respect ordinary workers and firmly establish a correct concept of labor. For example, the reading material "Grow a Good Buckwheat in One Place", the second volume of literature in China, reflects the deep feelings of farmers in China for the land and embodies the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation. It is written in the literature text reading material "To My Son" in the first volume of the new college entrance examination that young people who are baptized by labor can not only strengthen their physique, "the muscles on their shoulders will bulge under the pole", but also realize some fundamental and eternal truths.

Second, to cope with changes, improve the pattern, and enlighten wisdom and increase wisdom in the examination of thinking

  In 2023, Chinese test questions will strengthen the examination of thinking quality, and guide candidates to improve their logical thinking ability, image thinking ability and innovative thinking ability.

1 examine logical thinking, improve speculative ability

  The test questions examine the logical thinking ability from many aspects, such as whether to form an opinion, whether to reason reasonably, whether to demonstrate rigorously, and whether to express accurately. For example, the topic of "people, technology and time" is given in the writing test materials of National Grade A, but no clear point of view is given. Candidates need to mobilize their abilities of association, migration, demonstration and reasoning, find problems, identify problems, form opinions and expand arguments.

"People, Technology and Time", a writing test in National Grade A.

22. Read the following materials and write as required. (60 points)

  People can better control time because of the development of technology, but some people have become servants of time.

  What kind of association and thinking did this sentence cause you? Please write an article.

  Requirements: select the right angle, determine the concept, clarify the style, and draw up the title; Do not copy or copy; Do not disclose personal information; Not less than 800 words.

2 Examining thinking in images and improving aesthetic quality

  The examination questions select literary works, lead candidates to feel the beauty of the motherland’s language and characters, and mobilize association and imagination on the basis of reading experience to express their feelings and thoughts. For example, the pragmatic I corpus of Volume B is extracted from Two Old Men by Wang Zengqi, which examines the ability of candidates to comprehend the expression effect through language forms. Lin Bu’s "Late Return on the Lake" is selected as the reading test of ancient poetry in Volume II of the new curriculum standard, which shows the poet’s tranquil mood in the description of the scenery. Question 16 asks candidates to think about how Wang Guowei’s view of "seeing things from me, so everything is my color" is confirmed in his poems.

3 examine scientific thinking, stimulate the enthusiasm of inquiry

  习总书记在多次讲话中强调提高青少年科学素养的重要性。试题通过文质兼美的科普文章激发考生的好奇心、想象力和探究欲,倡导科学思维。如全国甲、乙卷的实用类文本阅读材料选自科普读物《树的秘密生命》和《深时之旅》,既注重营造热爱科学的氛围,又引导学生在理解材料信息的基础上,对相关问题作深入思考。

三 平稳布局、开拓新局,在考教衔接中以考促教

  试题积极体现《普通高中语文课程标准》(2017年版)的新理念,主动呼应国家统编高中语文教材中的新增内容,增强试题的创新性和开放性,引导一线教学扭转功利化倾向,将功夫下在提高课堂质量、夯实知识基础、培养能力素养上。

1 依据课程标准,强调语文实践

  语文核心素养是学生在积极的语言实践活动中积累与构建起来,并在真实的语言运用情境中表现出来的语言能力及其品质。试题从阅读与鉴赏、表达与交流、梳理与探究等方面,考查考生语言积累、梳理与迁移运用能力。全国甲卷语言文字运用试题材料摘自张志公的《说工具》,介绍了三位教师对成语“破釜沉舟”的不同的教学方法。第21题要求从“卧薪尝胆、庖丁解牛、一鼓作气”三个成语中任选一个,借鉴材料中第三位教师的讲解方法,拟出讲解要点。

2 Linking up and compiling textbooks to promote classroom reform

  The relationship between the enhancement of test questions in Volume I and Volume II of the new curriculum standard and the compilation of textbooks. The learning task in the textbook of the unified compilation, such as the test of writing short comments on works in the reading of literary texts in Volume I of the new curriculum standard, points to the learning task of "learning to write short comments on literature" in the Chinese textbook of the unified compilation; Associated with the new contents in the textbook, such as the information text reading I of the new curriculum standard II and the unit of "hometown cultural life" and "reading the whole book" in the textbook; The basic knowledge in the textbook, such as the meaning comprehension test of classical Chinese reading, is connected with the textbook content; The selected articles in the textbook are related, such as Lu Xun’s Social Drama and Shen Congwen’s Border Town, etc.

3. Innovating the form of proposition, reducing mechanical brush questions.

  A variety of new questions are used in the test questions, which effectively avoids rote memorization and "mechanical brushing". Each of the four writing questions has its own characteristics. Among them, the writing question "Teenagers’ own space" in Volume II of the new curriculum standard is a new type of reading and writing.

New Curriculum Standard Volume II Writing Test "Teenagers’ Own Space"

23. Read the following materials and write as required. (60 points)

  The idea of "be quiet and not be disturbed" mentioned in the language application II of this test paper is not uncommon among contemporary teenagers. Teenagers sometimes want to have their own space to relax, settle down and grow up in their study and life.

  Please write an article combining the above materials.

  Requirements: select the right angle, determine the concept, clarify the style, and draw up the title; Do not copy or copy; Do not disclose personal information; Not less than 800 words.

  Four sets of classical Chinese test materials have single text and compound text. The new sentence-breaking questions in classical Chinese can prevent candidates from using skills to answer. The forms and test sites of the four sets of pragmatic test questions are different. In addition to traditional ill sentences, idioms and supplementary writing, comments, sentence meanings and expression effects are also examined.

4 Respect the law of growth and encourage personality development.

  Test questions provide candidates with a space to show their personality and express their true feelings, and encourage candidates to explore, find problems and express themselves. For example, the writing test "Young People’s Own Space" in the second volume of the new curriculum standard is close to the examinee’s life and closely related to the growth of young people. Candidates can show their personality and reflect their thinking on growth through the introduction of their own space content, and can also have a dialogue with their parents and teachers.

  In 2023, the Chinese examination questions for the college entrance examination will educate the party and select talents for the country, guide the vast number of young people to establish firm ideals and beliefs, consolidate their knowledge base, improve their ability and accomplishment, and become the pillars of socialist modernization!