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Do American children still learn handwriting in school In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out.
We asked Professor Steve Graham at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He told us that he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years. He said: "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."
Ninety percent of teachers also say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. Professor Graham said: "One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting.
And then when you look at how it’s taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten, fifteen minutes a day, and th
A. handwriting lessons take too much of their time
B. handwriting lessons are boring for kids
C. they write little at present time
D. they write through computers not by handwriting

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Do American children still learn handwriting in school In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out.
We asked Professor Steve Graham at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He told us that he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years. He said: "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."
Ninety percent of teachers also say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. Professor Graham said: "One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting.
And then when you look at how it’s taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten, fifteen minutes a day, and th
A. most teachers in grades one to three still teach handwriting
B. 3/4 teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting
C. most students in grades one to three have learned handwriting well
D. most teachers think handwriting should not be taught by itself

[简答题]In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught--to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle--compare their own performances with those of more skilled people，and slowly make the needed changes．

[填空题]Children should learn more responsibility for their health through ______.

[填空题]Children should learn more responsibility or their health through ____________.

[填空题]Children should learn more responsibility {or their health through ____________.

[单项选择]Why are some children still backward in speaking
A. Their brains have been input with too much language at once.
B. They do not listen carefully to their mothers.
C. Their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them.
D. Their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak.

[填空题]Playing in the athletic fields, children still need ______ so that the play time can be more effective and productive.

[填空题]S1. What is the best way for children to learn things ______.

[单项选择]Passage One
Children learn almost nothing from television，and the more they watch the less they remember．They regard television purely as entertainment，resent programs that demand on them and are surprised that anybody should take the medium seriously．Far from being over—excited by programs，they are mildly bored with the whole thing． These are the main conclusions from a new study of children and television．The author Cardiac Cullingford confirms that the modem child is a dedicated viewer．The studv suggests that there is liRle point in the later hours．More than a third of the children regularly watch their favorite programs after 9 p．m．All 11-year—olds have watched programs after midnight．
Apart from the obvious waste of time involved，it seems that all this viewing has liRle effect．Children don’t pay close attention，says Cullingford，and they can recall few detaiL7．They can remember exactly which programs they have seen but they can rarely explain the elem
A. "the more they watch the less they remember"(in Para. 1)
B. "programs seeking to put over serious messages are strongly disliked" (in Para. 2)
C. "they see them as short programs in their own right"(in Para. 2)
D. "educational television is probably least successful of all in imparting attitudes or information"(in Para. 3)