【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ogical society? The new education standards for English do not require cursive. However, schools are still allowed to teach cursive if they choose. Some schools are considering giving up cursive, since it is not on standardized tests. This topic is now being discussed in teacher lunchrooms around the country. We invited some inspired teachers to weigh in. Here’s what one of them, Eldra Avery, has to say. I failed a handwriting assignment in eighth grade, but my teacher told me that I was well able to have that type of handwriting. So I improved my handwriting and now have beautiful cursive handwriting. I teach English, and at times I ask my students to do assignments in cursive. Since they will be taking timed writing exams throughout their educational career, it is necessary that they practice writing at a speed that will allow them to finish their task. When you have three letters connected in a word, it flows, and when you lift your pen only at the end of a word, it is faster than printing (印刷體 ), which lifts the pen at the pletion of each letter. Handwriting is a reflection (反映 ) of our humanity. We dream of a future with more advanced technology and less labor, but truthfully, if technology prevents us from using skills that are essentially human, I wonder if that can be called “progress.” Cursive connects us to our past and our future. If students can’t write cursive, they can’t read cursive. And if they can’t read cursive, how can they read historical papers like the Declaration of Independence? Writing cursive is a process that helps improve language learning. Copying text by hand does a lot of good to students. My students plete a poetry analysis paper each year. Many of them tell me that they couldn’t begin to understand their poem until they copied it by hand. Handwriting is a valuable munication tool. Communication through handwriting will always be a necessity. To imagine that the whole world municates by typing would be a rather poor view. 33. According to Paragraph 1, teachers are discussing _____. A. whether cursive should be taught B. whether students should read cursive C. how to look at handwriting assignments D. how to improve students’ cursive writing 34. Why does Ms. Avery mention her students in the last paragraph? A. To show the positive side of handwriting. B. To introduce an effective learning method. C. To show the importance of copying poems. D. To share her firsthand teaching experience. 35. Ms. Avery would probably agree that _____. A. handwriting should be replaced by typing B. there should be fewer standardized tests C. cursive is more effective than printing D. cursive helps us learn about the future 第二節(jié)（共 5小題；每小題 2分，滿分 10分） 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。 One cool job John Harrison has been a taste tester for the past 21 years. 36 As a kid, he’d wanted to be a fire fighter or a police officer. 37 Four generations of Harrisons have been in the business, including his greatgrandfather, who owned two icecream shops in New York City in the 1880s, his father, who owned a dairyingredients (乳品原料 ) factory in Geia, and his uncle, who owned an icecream factory in Tennessee. At his uncle’s fac tory, he “tasted and ate” his way through high school and college as he learned how to make ice cream. Every morning Harrison tastes 60 icecream samples (樣品 ). At the beginning, he takes the containers of ice cream out of a big storage freezer. 38 The temperature in the storage freezer is 20 degrees Fahrenheit (華氏溫度 ). Most people eat ice cream at between 0 and 5 degrees. While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance. 39 He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive. If there are added goodies in the ice cream, such as fruit, chocolate chips or nuts, he makes sure that they are evenly (均勻地 ) spread throughout and that the sample doesn’t have too much or too little of the added ingredients. 40 With his goldplated spoon, which he uses to avoid the aftertaste plastic or wood can give, Harrison removes the top of the sample. Then he turns the spoon upside down and puts the spoonful onto