英语四级听力练习集锦31

Teaching¹ penmanship

As you prepare to become elementary school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of disscussion about the relevance² of teaching permanship, the qulity of one's handwriting.

Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and arithmetic were the basic of elementary school education. It went without saying that writing meant first and foremost³ penmanship. That is, the neatness of a 

child's handwriting. Back then, penmanship was often taught as a separate subject from the first grade right up through the sixth grade long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even awarded for the best handwriting.

1 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

2 relevance   

n.中肯，适当，关联，相关性

参考例句：

• Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
• Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。

3 foremost   

adj.最初的，最前的，第一流的；adv.在最前

参考例句：

• He is considered the foremost British artist of this century.他被认为是本世纪英国第一流的艺术家。
• The premier occupies the foremost place in the world of politics.首相是政界的首要人物。