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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 perc

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问题     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."
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答案 To Help, or Not to Help, That’s Not a Question The news coverage above starkly illustrated the distressing fact that people are now becoming reluctant to help those in need for the fear of being prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death. Recent guidelines by Chinese authorities on how to assist an elderly person who has fallen in the street, have fur?ther unleashed the dilemma in the public. Netizens of Sina Weibo bear prevailing negative attitude toward both the society’s morality and individual values and virtues. They blame the "bad social environment" for the current situation. Nevertheless, I do hold that, to help reverse this disappointing trend, we individuals should take initiatives to create a harmonious society, rather than complain about the hostility and wait for it to improve passively. It is futile to wait for the social environment to improve by itself. Just imagine how a house can be built if everybody waits idly for others to make a start. Since the society is composed of individuals, it is each individual’s behavior that cultivates, protects and strengthens the social morality. The social environ?ment would not be changed overnight without individual efforts. We had but one choice that we ourselves spare no effort in moral cultivation, protection and strengthening in order to create a harmonious social context. Only by our joint efforts to accumulate good conducts step by step can we really improve the so?cial environment. A proverb says that "Present a rose to others, and its fragrance remains in your hands." If everyone is willing to help others without any hesitation, a sound social environment can be built. With the climate of morality and credibility deteriorating in some way today, it is high time that we should actively devote our?selves to the improvement of social morality and build a harmonious society.
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