Have you ever picked up a pen to write some characters, but you can't remember what ____look like?

    You're not alone. CCTV-10 started a show ____（call）Chinese Character Dictation Com-petition (《中国汉字听写大会》) last year. On the show, only three out of 10 adults____ (correct) wrote bingjiling (ice cream 冰激凌), and no one could ____ out penti (sneeze喷嚏). According to a survey, 94.1% of people said they had memory lapses (差错)  when writing some characters.

    It seems that Chinese characters are in ____Since the digital(数码) age began, fewer and fewer people use pens and paper. Most people now write Chinese on keyboards using pinyin. As ____ result, many people would forget the features特征 of a Chinese character, such as its structure and ____( mean ) easily.

    Chinese characters are one of the world's____ ( old)written languages, dating back (追溯到) to 1100 BC. It's not only a way for us to record things,____ it's important to pass on Chinese culture.____ example, the character nan (male男) is made up of two parts , tian (farmland田) and li (strength力). We can tell from it that in the old times Chinese men were in charge of (负责) working on the farmland.