晚练册 第6周-【晨读晚记】2023-2024学年高二上学期英语阅读强化训练

Week Six 第6周 晚练 的阅读理解A 原创 I can still see and feel the sheets of white,blue-lined paper on which I learned cursive()writing.Cur- sive was a required lesson of early education in my day.Connecting all the letters in a word in an unsteady flow and with my own personal style struck me as excellent fun,and I was a natural.I hardly recall printing,once I'd learned to write. Cursive was still taught when my son entered elementary school,but was no longer required by the time my grandson entered school.Computer keyboards had supplanted handwriting,and children took to them swiftly.Grandson Connor was soon coaching me on computers'advantages and possibilities.Cursive was old-school One day when Connor was about 8,he watched me as I penned a letter to a friend."How do you do that?" he asked.I was taken aback.How,indeed?I'd been taught,I said,and I'd had lots and lots of practice."Can I learn it?"he asked. Sports,especially soccer,were Connor's passions.While he did enjoy school,he hadn't shown much in- terest in anything but art class,where he excelled.Connor saw cursive as a fascinating new art form.When I asked him recently what he remembered about his boyhood fascination with cursive,he said,in his laconic way: "It was just peculiar,different...I wanted to do it." He didn't do it to impress.He did it because he wanted to.Connor persisted.He developed his own hand- writing style and flow.He was hooked,and he continued to invent and elaborate his script. Cursive may not be integral to school curricula any longer.We are where we are,now,in the arc of human communication.But I hope cursive handwriting continues to attract and engage children,at least some of them, the way it did my grandson-with no more encouraging than seeing someone use it to fill a sheet of paper with news for a friend. What can we infer about the author in Paragraph 1? A.He chose to learn cursive for fun. B.He failed to write letters straight. C.He had a gift for learning cursive. D.He forgot many word s