问答题

To help, or not to help? That has become a dilemma in modern China. According to a recent survey by China Youth Daily, 76.1 percent of the respondents say that our current society provides a “bad environment” for good people doing good deed. The following article is about the prevalent fear of helping old people in China. Read it carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:　　1. summarize briefly the article;　　2. give your comment on this phenomenon.　　Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.　　Lately, China’s Ministry of Health issued guidelines on how to handle cases of elderly falling. But instead of addressing the worrisome legal liability issue, it focuses mainly on medical consequences of a fall and offers technical solutions to different fall scenarios, while also telling people to overcome embarrassment and psychological fear of helping. This has further inflamed citizens who feel in a dilemma between wanting to help, and having fear of being taken advantage of for their kindness.　　Falling down is a leading cause of death for Chinese citizens aged 65 and above, according to Yang Maowei, Associate Professor of the First Hospital of China Medical University. However, in recent years, there have been frequent reports of such deaths in public places with no one helping the victims, Yang said.　　It seems that Chinese people have become reluctant to help because they worry that the person they help may later turn around and sue them, as that is what’s been happening a number of times in recent years. As a consequence, several elderly have been left to die in the streets with people passing by or watching, but not helping them.　　One line in the guidelines that particularly irked netizens said, “whether or not to lend a hand depends on the situation.”　　After the Ministry’s guidelines came out, Sina Weibo conducted a poll, asking people whether they are still willing to help an elderly who has fallen, considering the Ministry’s guidelines.　　Of the 5,031 who voted, only 20 percent said yes, while 43 percent said no, and the remaining 38 percent said, they’re not sure.　　Some people left comments expressing their inner conflicts and disillusionment over China’s sliding moral values:　　“I dare not help, but I’ll run to a public phone booth to call 120, the emergency number in China, and ask for an ambulance.”　　“I can’t even protect my own safety. How can I have the ability to take care of others? It’s really funny!”　　“To put it frankly, it reflects the degeneration of society’s morality. The culture has no direction, the morality has no bottom line, and the trust between people, and between people and the government is too low.”　　“Unless I were Bill Gates, I would help for sure.”　　“I would certainly help before. Now I’m really a bit afraid.”　　“In today’s Chinese society, traditional values and virtues have been eradicated completely. No matter what guidelines are issued, when one really stands at a critical point, the law will not protect the poor people.”　　“There’s no way out. The state educates us this way, and now it turns around to accuse us of having no morality. Isn’t that ridiculous? Whether to help is not a moral issue, but the crux of China’s current education”　　“At present, China’s social values are lost, and morality is ruined to the point of national doom.”

解析：
【审题构思】
　　题目是一篇新闻报道，主要就当下中国社会，人们因为担心被起诉，讹诈而不敢扶老人的现象进行评论。报道主要包括两方面内容，第一部分介绍中国最近出台了一个“扶老人”指南，从而引发争议；第二部分列举了一些网民对这个问题的看法，总体上看，网民都持消极的态度。根据新闻的内容，可行文布局如下：
　　第一段：简要总结上述新闻报道的内容，并从由报道最后网民们的抱怨引出自己的观点：要从自身做起，大家创建一个和谐友好的社会环境。
　　第二段：详细论述创建一个友好的社会环境的重要性，同时强调，只有通过每个人的努力才能做到这一点。
　　第三段：总结全文重申主题，我们每个人都应该为改善社会道德环境作贡献。