According to a recent survey, many students have never said “Thank you” to their parents who have done all they could to bring them up the past years.

The interviewed students claim such reasons as follows. First, a quarter of then regard it as parents duty to support them. Spiritually and financially. And it is not necessary to express appreciation to them. Half of them are aware of their parents’ tender love but are not accustomed to saying “Thank you”.Another quarter even find a generation gap between themselves and their parents,thus feeling reluctant to express their affection for their parents.In my opinion,extending thankfulness to our parents is a way of respecting them and their love. We should express our feelings directly and bravely. What’s more, we should do all we can to reward them with gratitude.

题目分析：本文是篇材料作文，所给材料非常简单，学生很容易把握写作要求和写作目的。考生在写作之前必修认真审题，首先要注意文章的时态，要求是叙述学生日常生活中存在与父母之间的误解和解决建议，所以要用一般现在时。要求写出自己的建议，因此本文必须用第一人称we，再有就是不能根据材料逐字逐句的翻译应该注意句子的衔接，以提高作文的档次。

【亮点说明】文中使用了较高级的短语和高级词汇以及较复杂的语法知识为文章增色不少，比如according to，bring up，be aware of，be accustomed to等；还运用了extending,to reward等非谓语动词；另外还应用了reward，reluctant等高级词汇等等。并注意了句子的衔接如： first, and , thus, What’s more 等等。上述这些充分体现了作者的英语功底。