Morics for correct answer 3 | Negative marks 1 QD roves BB wor anseree weesuur The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Not Visited oe Marked for Review Recently, two Italian journalists wrote a three-page newspaper article (in print, alas) about the decline of handwriting. By now it's well-known: Which of these factors does the author primarily blame for the declining quality of most kids - what with computers and text messages - can no longer write by hand, except in laboured capital letters. handwriting in the present generation? Answered & Morked for Review (will aso be evaluated) In an interview, a teacher said that students also make lots of spelling mistakes, which strikes me as a separate problem. Doctors know how to spell and yet they write poorly; and you can be an expert calligrapher and still write 'guage' or 'gage' instead of 'gauge'. eae keen | know children whose handwniting is fairly good. But the article talks of 50% of Italian kids - and so! suppose it ts thanks to an indulgent The advent of the computer and cellphones. _ _ destiny that | frequent the other 50%. me P @ @ [3] f& is] (e] i 2] The tragedy began long before the computer and the cellphone. The lack of good schooling in writing well (3) My parents' handwriting was slightly slanted because they held the sheet at an angle, and their letters were, at least by today's standards, minor works of art, At the time, Some - probably those with poor handwnting - said that fine writing was the art of fools. It's obvious that fine - handwriting does not necessarily mean fine intelligence. But it was pleasing to read notes or documents written as they should be. The advent of the ballpoint pen. My generation was schooled in good handwriting, and we spent the first months of elementary school learning to make the strokes of letters. The exercise was later held to be obtuse and repressive but it taught us to keep our wrists Steady as we used our pens to form letters rounded . The belief that fine writing was the art of fools. and plump on one side and finely drawn on the other. The crisis began with the advent of the ballpoint pen. Early ballpoints were also very messy and if, immediately after writing, you ran your finger over the last few words, a smudge inevitably appeared. And people no longer felt much interest in writing well, since handwriting, when produced with a ballpoint, even a clean one, no longer had soul, style or personality. Why should we regret the passing of good handwriting? The capacity to write well and quickly on a keyboard encourages rapid thought, and often (not always) the spell-checker will underline a misspelling. Although the cellphane has taught the younger generation to write 'Where R U7' instead of Where are you?', lel us not forget that our forefathers would have been shocked to see that we write 'show instead of 'shew' or 'enough' instead of 'enow'. Medieval theologians wrote 'Tespondeo dicendum quod', which would have made Cicero recoil in horror. The art of handwriting teaches us to control our hands and encourages hand-eye coordination. The three-page article points out that writing by hand obliges us to compose the phrase mentally before writing it down. Thanks to the resistance of pen and paper, it does make one slow down and think. Many writers, though accustomed to writing on the computer, would sometimes prefer even to impress letters on a Clay tablet, just so they could think with greater calm. It's true that kids will write more and more on computers and cellphones. Nonetheless, humanity has learned to rediscover as sports and aesthetic pleasures many things that civilization had eliminated as unnecessary. It would be a good thing if parents sent kids off to handwriting schools so they could take part in competitions and tournaments - not only to acquire grounding in what is beautiful, but also for psychomotor wellbeing. Such schools already exist, just search for 'calligraphy school on the intemet. And perhaps for those with a steady hand but without a steady job, teaching this art could become a good business. Marked for Review & Next Clear Response Ra Question 8 In the following question, a word has been used in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate. PRIME Johnson's latest novel is a prime example of how the high fantasy genre can be given a modem twist. In his primes, Sachin Tendulkar was a batsman feared for his skills the world over. ) The builder had been eyeing some prime commercial plots in the city. > Itis important to prime the wall before applying the final layer of paint po Snipping Screenshot Automatica Marked for Review & Next Clear Response Previous =