Handwriting is an essential skill for both children and adults. The following reasons demonstrate why it is very important to have good handwriting throughout life.
When in childhood, handwriting activates the brain more than keyboarding.
Cursive writing (草书) helps students, both young and old, with dyslexia (读写困难).
As children get older, many standardized assessments are based on written work, particularly in time-limited written examinations.
People are judged by their handwriting even after getting into adulthood. Good handwriting is essential long after graduation. In our modern world, in all walks of life—making a shopping list, writing a birthday card, taking down a phone message, completing a form at the bank, filling out immigration forms—handwriting is part of our daily lives.
| A．Good handwriting is essential throughout life. |
| B．Examiners need to distinguish what is written. |
| C．Good handwriting shows the writer’s good personality. |
| D．This is because it involves more complex motion and learning skills. |
| E．Consequently, it is on show to others and may be used to make judgments about us. |
| F．Children can have a very hard time with writing in print because many letters look similar. |
| G．Without fast and clear handwriting, students may get low grades and fall behind. |
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【推荐1】New research has shown that you might not just be feeling blue; you may also be seeing it differently. Your mood may affect how you see the world around you, according to a new study. A team of researchers has proved that sadness could have an effect on the way we see colors.
The team, led by psychology researcher Christopher Thorstenson of the University of Rochester, found that people who had a sad mood were less accurate in identifying colors on the blue-yellow axis (轴), compared to people who weren’t feeling sad.
“We were already deeply familiar with how often people use color terms to describe common phenomena, like mood, even when these concepts seem unrelated,” Thorstenson said in a statement. “We thought maybe a reason why these metaphors (比喻) appear was that there really was a connection between mood and identifying colors in a different way.”
Thorstenson and his team are not the first to identify a link between a depressed mood and a difference in recognition. In 2010, Emanuel Bubl and his team at Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany first proved a link between mood and identifying colors. This was supported by a 2013 paper by Johnson Fam of the University of Singapore.
The team conducted two studies. In the first, 127 participants were chosen randomly to watch one of two video clips, which had been proved in previous studies to feel either sadness or amusement. They didn’t do that in a specific order. The entire group was then tasked with identifying the colors in 48 continued color changes. The group that had been shown the sad clip was measurably worse at identifying colors along the blue-yellow axis.
For the second study, 130 participants were randomly assigned to watch either a sad clip or a neutral (中性的) one. The sadness group showed reduced ability to identify colors along the blue-yellow axis than the neutral group.
1. If one _______, the colors he sees might be different from those in others’ eyes.| A．is in a good mood | B．has an eye illness |
| C．attends a speech | D．doesn’t feel happy |
| A．Thorstenson and Johnson. | B．Thorstenson and his team. |
| C．Johnson and his team. | D．Emaneuel and his team. |
| A．felt happy when watching the video |
| B．performed better than the other |
| C．were less able to identify some colours |
| D．could only identify blue and yellow |
【推荐2】Wondering what bacteria are? First, to help to understand a bit about our bodies, think of a brick house. All the bricks stick together to form the walls. Similarly, our body is built of building blocks. Instead of bricks, however, our bodies are built out of cells. These cells are extremely small.
Bacteria are very small, single-celled organisms. Our body is made out of trillions (万亿)of cells, while a bacterium has only one cell. Bacteria are similar to the cells that make up our body. They are very small microorganisms, often much smaller than our cells. Bacteria are found almost everywhere on Earth. Right now, bacteria are probably living on your skin and in your body.
Many bacteria are helpful. They can help your body break down and digest food. Some bacteria, however, like Salmonella, are harmful and can make people very sick. Many bacteria get food from their environment. Also, bacteria have a DNA blueprint, and can reproduce.
We know of at least 300 species of bacteria, and scientists often discover new species. Some bacteria are good for us. Many bacteria are harmless. Some bacteria are dangerous, and along with other bad microbes (微生物), they are called “germs”.
Bacteria are small, usually microscopic organisms. This means you typically can’t see bacteria without a microscope or another tool. Bacteria are living organisms. However, some bacteria can use photosynthesis (光合作用), like plants, to create energy. This means they use sunlight and other things to create energy.
Bacteria are found pretty much everywhere on Earth. Right now, bacteria are likely present on your skin. They may also be present on the computer screen, on your food, and in many other places. Many bacteria live in your digestive tract and help your body break down food.
1. Why does the author mention the brick house?| A．To show the importance of cells. |
| B．To give an explanation for cells. |
| C．To help understand bacteria. |
| D．To prove bacteria are necessary for our body. |
| A．Bacteria can be only seen with the help of a microscope. |
| B．Bacteria are found only in human’s body. |
| C．Bacteria are similar to the cells in size. |
| D．Bacteria are single-celled organisms. |
| A．Some bacteria can generate energy. |
| B．Most bacteria are dangerous. |
| C．Bacteria are a little bit bigger than cells. |
| D．We know of less than 30, 000 species of bacteria. |
| A．The introduction of germ |
| B．The introduction of bacteria |
| C．The discovery of new bacteria |
| D．The distinction of god and bad bacteria |
【推荐3】Visit the grocery store on an empty stomach, and you will probably come home with a few things you had not planned to buy. But hunger is not the only culprit behind such purchases. The location of store displays also influences our shopping and may make or break some healthy eating habits.
The checkout area is a particular hotspot for junk food. Studies have found that the products most commonly found there are sugary and salty snacks-and a few studies have suggested that simply swapping in healthier choices can shift customer behavior. A 2012 study in the Netherlands found that hospital workers were more likely to give up junk food for healthy snacks when the latter were more readily available on canteen shelves, for example, in 2014 Norwegain and Icelandic researcher likewise found that replacing unhealthy items with healthy ones in the checkout area significantly increased last-minutes sales of healthier foods.
These findings caught the attention of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which has been working with more than 1,000 store owners to encourage them to stock and promote consumption,” says Tamar Adjoian, a research scientist at the department. “Making healthy food more convenient or appealing can lead to increased sales of those products.”
Adjoian and her colleagues wondered if such findings would apply to their city’s dense urban checkout areas, so they recruited three Bronx supermarkets for their own study. They gave one checkout line in each store a healthy makeover, replacing candy, cookies and other processed snacks with fruit , nuts and similar items containing 200 or fewer calories per serving. Then they recorded purchases over six three-hour periods in each store for two weeks.
Of the more than 2,100 shoppers they observed, just 4 precent bought anything from the checkout area. Among those who did, however, customers in the healthy lines purchased nutritious items more than twice as often as those in the standard lines -and they bought unhealthy items 40 percent less often. The findings were reported in September in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
The potential influence may seem small, but Adjoian believes that changing more checkout lines would open customers’ eyes to nutritious, lower-calories foods. Health department officials are now exploring ways to expand healthy choices at checkout areas throughout New York City.
1. The underlined word “culprit” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______ in the passage.| A．something to blame | B．something related to culture |
| C．something that results | D．something concealed |
| A．shops put great emphasis on increase in last-minute sales of food |
| B．healthier choices were rarely seen in company canteens or in supermarket |
| C．customers’ shopping behavior could be changed by what is easily available |
| D．sugary and salty snacks were among the most common items in checkout areas |
| A．Only a little attention has been drawn to Adjoian’s research. |
| B．Only several healthy items are displayed and then purchased. |
| C．Only three Bronx supermarkets have been involved in the study. |
| D．Only a small proportion (部分) of shoppers buy things from checkout areas. |
