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2.In this age of cell phones,text messages and computer keyboards,one Scottish school has returned to basics.It's teaching youngsters the ignored art of writing with a fountain pen.There is no clicking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville Junior School,although there is a full range of facilities (设施)for computer lessons and technology isn't being ignored.The private school's headmaster believes the old-fashioned pens have helped strengthen the academic (学术的) performance and self-esteem (自尊)of his 1,200pupils.
"The pens improve the quality of work because they force the children to take care,and better work improves self-esteem",headmaster Bryan Lewis said."Proper handwriting is as relevant today as it ever has been."Students as young as 7have been instructed to give up their ball point pens and begin to deal with its more artful  predecessor.By the time they reach grade five,at age 9,they are expected to write mainly with fountain pens.Lewis said the school's 7-and 8-year-olds use fountain pens for 80percent to 90percent of their work,returning to pencils for such subjects as math."I don't see fountain pens as old-fashioned or out of date.Modern fountain pens are beautiful to use?it's not like in the old days of broken metal points and dirtying writing paper,"Lewis said."We have a particular writing style and we have developed it very carefully and found a way that allows left-and right-handed people to write without dirtying paper."
Some people in wealthy nations argue that handwriting is becoming less important because of the growing use of cell phone text messaging and typing on computers,but the school disagrees."We talk of the paperless office and the paperless world,but this is not true,"Lewis said."You still need to have proper handwriting skills."

=0.The Scottish school in the passageC.
A.does not think highly of modern technology
B.values fountain pens more than anything else
C.pays special attention to the use of fountain pens
D.takes an action which is considered to be stupid by a great many people
61.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?C
A.Schools in Scotland all encourage using pens.
B.Fountain pens today are much more expensive.
C.Lewis thinks the idea of the paperless world impractical.
D.The left-handed can't benefit from the new fountain pens.
62.The underlined word"predecessor"in Paragraph 2refers toB.
A.the pencil        B.the fountain pen
C.the keyboard      D.the ball point pen
63.The headmaster Bryan Lewis holds the view thatC.
A.children should be required to use pens when they are five
B.using pens may slow down students'speed of writing
C.pens have helped to build up students'self-respect
D.handwriting skills are more important than typing skills.

分析 本文是一篇科教类阅读,主要讲了在当今的电子时代使用钢笔的好处.

解答 60-63.CCBC
60题答案:C考查细节推理,根据文章第一段的It's teaching youngsters the ignored art of writing with a fountain pen.它(Scottish school)正在教孩子们被忽视了的用钢笔书写的艺术.可知本题答案为C选项.
61题答案:C考查细节推理,根据文章最后一段的We talk of the paperless office and the paperless world,but this is not true…"我们谈论无纸办公和无纸世界,但是这是不真实的…"可知本题答案为C选项.
62题答案:B考查细节推理,根据文章倒数第二段的By the time they reach grade five,at age 9,they are expected to write mainly with fountain pens.到他们五年级(九岁时)时他们应该主要以钢笔书写.可知predecessor指的就是钢笔,故本题答案为B选项.
63题答案:C考查细节推理,根据文章第一段的The private school's headmaster believes the old-fashioned pens have helped strengthen the academic (学术的) performance and self-esteem (自尊)of his 1,200pupils.这所私人学校的校长认为这些过了时的钢笔能帮助他的1200名学生加强他们的学术及自尊.可知本题答案为C选项.

点评 本文是一篇科教类阅读,题目涉及多道细节理解题,做题时结合原文和题目有针对 性找出相关语句进行仔细分析,结合选项选出正确答案.推理判断也是要在抓住关键句子的基础上合理的分析才能得出正确的答案.

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