中国崛起的特点The Traits of China's Rise:Answer a Gaokao高考 Essay Question

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Answer a Gaokao Essay Question
How would YOU fare answering this essay question from this year's Gaokao?        
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 BY         CHARLIE CUSTER (葛亚辉)   
Today is the first day of China's two-day college entrance exam extravaganza, known in Chinese as gaokao (高考). If you're a Chinese high school student, you're probably sitting in an exam room right now sweating and wishing it was all over, but the rest of us --too old, too young, or too foreign to take the test -- can only play armchair quarterback each year as hundreds of thousands of Chinese high school students face their destinies head on.

And what better way to play armchair quarterback than to try to answer the test's infamous essay questions? The full list will probably appear tomorrow, but for now, you can whet your appetite with this question, which Xinhua says students from Henan, Shanxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Ningxia, Xinjiang, and Hainan have already faced. Please write your answers in essay format in the comments section, using a number 2 pencil. You have 45 minutes. Good luck!

The Traits of China's Rise (translated from the above-linked Xinhua story)

Stories about China's economic and political rise appeared on a list of "the ten biggest news stories of the 21st century" published by American Global Language Reseach, and are thus considered big news. The 750,000 print, digitial, and internet media organizations that follow this published over 300,000,000 reports based on this information. So what aspects of China's rise are the most worthy of commendation and attention? The China Youth Daily and Sina did an online poll and the six winning traits were: economic development, international influence, improvement of the peoples' lives, technological [advancements], the new progress of cities, and China's [overall] degree of openness. Following the above information, discuss your own thoughts. Choose an appropriate angle, draft your own title, select any style of writing you like (except poetry). Don't stray away from what's covered in the question, don't quote/take from others, and don't plagiarize.

How would you take on this question? Feel free to let us know in the comments. (Your comment can be in any writing style you like, even poetry!)

By the way, we wrote an in-depth feature for the magazine last fall called "The Pressure is On" that you should check out if you're interested in the Gaokao. And if you want to find out how a gaokao question doubled the circulation of China's leading sci fi magazine, pick up a copy of the magazine's current issue!
2011年新课标卷高考作文题：中国崛起的特点
2011年06月07日 11:59:21
　　2011年高考语文科目考试已经结束，以下为2011年新课标卷(河南、山西、吉林、黑龙江、宁夏、新疆、海南)高考作文题：中国崛起的特点

　　据美国全球语言研究所公布全球二十一世纪十大新闻，其中有关中国作为经济和政治大国崛起的新闻名列首位，成为全球最大的新闻。该所跟踪了全球75万家纸媒体、电子媒体及互联网信息，发现其中报道中国崛起的信息有3亿多条。 那么，中国的崛起主要有什么值得称道的和关注的特点呢？《中国青年报》和新浪网在中国网民中进行了调查，结果排在前六名的分别是：经济发展、国际影响、民生改善、科技水平、城市新进程和开放程度。请根据以上材料，谈自己的所思、所想。选择一个恰当的角度，题目自拟，文体不限(除诗歌外)；不要脱离材料的含义，不要套作，不得抄袭。
http://www.theworldofchinese.com ... -is-in-session.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/edu/2011-06/07/c_121503213.htm