Exercise
1. According to the passage, what is penmanship?
2. What was the author doing years ago?
3. When do people consider teaching penmanship to be waste of time?
4. Back then, was often taught as a separate subject from the first grade thought the sixth grade the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive .
5. With , they say, children can successfully the keyboard or mouse of their home computers before they can even . This change had an impact on the classroom.
6. But after this, the makes no further mention of penmanship in grade five, six or beyond, any of quality or neatness is simply not among the curricular objectives. Your is to look at what the curricular standards say for all fifty states say about penmanship.
Words & Phrases
Words:
arithmetic 算术
penmanship 书法
Phrases:
A few decades 几十年
a waste of time 浪费时间
be awarded for... 因......被奖励
call for 要求,提倡
have an impact on... 对......有影响
make no mention of... 没有提到......
move ahead 向前推移
move from... to... 从......移到......
Sentence Pattern 句型
1. It went without saying that writing meant first and foremost penmanship 毫无疑问,写作最重要的是书法。
It goes without saying that... ......是毋庸置疑的。