1989年全国高考语文有一道从《九章算术》中选材的试题:“竹原高一丈,末折着地,去本三尺,问竹还高几何?”要求考生从四幅图中选出符合题意的一幅来。此题虽只占全卷总分的1/120 ,但细细品偿,令人不禁叫绝! 此题之妙处大致有四: 综合性,考查运用能力。这道题说难又简单,其实只考了四个字:“本”、“末”、“去”“还”,却起码综合了三项关于字、词的基础知识,即《六书》中的“指事”、词的本义和后起义以及多音多义词。有的考生虽对许慎《六书》倒背如流,却将“末”误解为“根”,将“本”解释为 In 1989, there was a question in the National College Entrance Examination that was selected from the “Nine Chapters of Arithmetic”: “If Takehara is a tall man, he ends up folding the ground and goes to the three feet, and asks the question of how high the geometry is?” Ask candidates to select questions from the four figures. An intention to come. Although this question only accounts for 1/120 of the total score of the whole volume, it can not help being exclaimed. The beauty of this topic is roughly fourfold: Comprehensive, examine the ability to use. This question is difficult and simple. Actually, only four words were considered: “this”, “end”, “go”, “return”, but at least three basic knowledge of words and words were integrated. In the “referring to things”, the original meaning of the word and the uprising and multi-syllable words. Some candidates misunderstood the “Ling” as “root” and Xuan Shen as “The Six Books”.