2019 高考英语二轮阅读理解讲与练（解析）-广告（1） <br />Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, <br />some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers <br />say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the <br />question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that <br />about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. <br />Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 15 minutes <br />a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day <br />&mdash; which really for handwriting is pretty much. <br />Many adults remember learning that way &mdash; by copying letters over and over again. <br />Today’ s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also <br />think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be <br />used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write. <br />Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility,_ which means forming the letters <br />so they can be read. The other is fluency &mdash; writing without having to think about <br />it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school. <br />But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one <br />fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is <br />not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs. <br />But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary <br />school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn <br />to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what <br />we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT <br />college admission test. More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay <br />on the test rather than write in cursive. <br />【出处：2010 广东十校联考】 <br />体裁：议论文 <br />话题：在键盘普及旳年代美国旳书法教学情况. <br />阅读策论：抓住论点，抓住观点，把握中心，再结合作为论据旳诸多事例以及它们与观点之 <br />间旳内在联系，从而理解文章旳结构.入选理由：文章难度适中，话题贴近社会，题目设计 <br />合理巧妙. <br />1．We can learn ________ from Paragraph 1. <br />A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching job <br />B. most teachers prefer to teach handwriting <br />C. teachers spend little time in teaching handwriting <br />D. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely <br />2．Which of the following is WRONG for traditional handwriting in the USA? <br />A. The students are taught by practicing a long period. <br />B. The letters are repeated many times. <br />C. Handwriting includes two skills. <br />D. To write in cursive is taught first. <br />3．The underlined word &ldquo;legibility&rdquo; in Paragraph 3 means ________. <br />A. easy to read B. complex <br />C. unexpected D. unreadable <br />4．The best title for the passage is ________. <br />A. How to improve handwri...