《2025年学霸组合训练八年级英语上册译林版泰州专版》

Pinyin is a system that uses the Latin letters. It tells us how 1to pronounce Chinese characters. What you learned in your first Chinese class in primary school was probably pinyin. The year 2018 marks pinyin's 2sixtieth birthday.
In 1958, Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang and his team 3designed pinyin. Before that, Chinese people used many other methods to denote(标注)the pronunciation of Chinese characters. In ancient China, people denoted Chinese characters by using other Chinese characters that had the same pronunciation. Some of the symbols are Chinese character strokes(笔画). For example, a vertical stroke(一竖)is pronounced as “i” in pinyin. 4However, these methods are not as simple as pinyin. Because of pinyin, many illiterate(不识字的)people have learned to read and write 5correctly. We use pinyin 6to type Chinese characters into computers and phones. Pinyin has been useful in other ways too. It helps promote the use of Standard Chinese, or Mandarin, so people who speak different 7dialects can still understand each other.
Pinyin is not only popular in China. Many people around the world start to learn Chinese by learning pinyin. You might say “nihao” 8instead of “hello” to foreign friends. The Oxford English Dictionary includes more than 100 Chinese words in pinyin, such as zhongguomeng for “Chinese dream”, and wanggou for “online shopping”.
Pinyin is not only a language tool, but also a 9cultural bridge connecting China to the world, Guangming Daily noted. Pinyin is still young, but it has proven(证明) 10itself useful and will continue to be so in the future.

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3. Steps
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5. Don't
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9. improved
10. Repeat