专题限时训练(三十一)文化教育型阅读理解(一)(限时：25分钟)(一)It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels. This is exciting. Yet, on the other hand, competition breeds a pragmatic(实用的) attitude. People choose to learn things that are useful, and do things that are profitable. Todays college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism(功利主义)Many college students choose business or computing programming as their majors convinced that these professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking parttime jobs as a warmingup for the real battle. I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving lessons to get a license. Well, I have nothing against being practical.As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical. However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation(培养) of students minds, or nurturing of their soul, we will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines. If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mindforged medicals lost in the moneymaking ventures; we will see humanity losing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous. Id like to think society as a carriage and peoples pursuit for profit or fame as the horse that pulls the carriage. Yet without the driver picking direction the carriage would go straight and may even end up in a precarious situation.A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities(正直)，these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way. In todays world, where highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise(专业), but of vision and strategy, your intellectual quality largely determines how far you can go in your career.1The authors attitude toward todays college education is_.Apositive BcautiousCcritical Ddoubtful2Many college students choose to major in business because_.Aa businessman is very likely to make big moneyBstudying business is less competitiveCtoo many students have chosen computing programming Dcomputing programming is not a must for them3The author does strongly suggest that _.Amore competition be encouraged on college campusBpeople not ignore the value of broad horizons, positive attitude and personal integritiesCintellectual quality determine how far one can go in his careerDcollege students get as many parttime jobs as possible4In the authors opinion，_.Acollege students are not pragmatic enoughBcollege students should have drivers pick direction for themCcollege education should provide students with more business coursesDcollege education should value the cultivation of students minds(二)Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten to fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a daywhich really for handwriting is pretty much death.Many adults remember learning that wayby copying letters over and over again. Todays thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluencywriting without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive(连笔，草书), which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75% of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.1. We can infer from th