B
Over the past decade, keyboards and screens have quietly replaced handwriting in our daily routines, from classrooms to office meetings. Yet, research shows that putting pen to paper offers cognitive（认知的）benefits that digital tools can't bring.
Statistically, most studies on the relationship between handwriting and memory show that people are better at remembering things that they have written down, by hand than on a computer. Handwriting can significantly impact how we absorb and memorize information.
The advantage of writing by hand is that it involves a variety of senses in the writing process. "Holding a pen with our fingers, pressing it on a surface, and moving our hands to create letters and words is a complex cognitive-motor skill that requires a lot of our attention," says Mellissa Prunty, a professor at Brunel University in London who has researched the relationship between handwriting and learning. "This deeper level of processing, which involves mapping sounds to letter formations, has been shown to support reading and spelling in children," Prunty says.
To better understand how our senses influence our cognition, Audrey van der Meer, a professor at a Norwegian university, looked at brain scans of 36 university students who performed writing tasks. The students were asked to write some words using pen and paper or typing them on a keyboard. Their brain activity during each task was captured through electroencephalogram（脑电图）techniques.
"The most surprising thing was that the whole brain was active when the students were writing by hand, while much smaller areas were active when they were typewriting," van der Meer says. "This suggests that when you are writing by hand you are using most of your brain to get the job done."
In Norway, many schools stopped teaching cursive writing, making pupils write and read on an iPad. Van der Meer hopes to change this trend through her research. "I think we should have at least a minimum of handwriting in primary school curricula simply because it is so good for the developing brain," she says.
5. Why are people more likely to remember things written by hand than typed on a computer?
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A. It can activate multiple senses.
B. It requires more time and effort.
C. It helps people to learn new words quickly.
D. It brings great benefits to our cognitive ability.
6. What does the underlined word "captured" mean in Paragraph 4?
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A. Attracted.
B. Recorded.
C. Caught.
D. Represented.
7. What does van der Meer encourage people to do in the future?
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A. Give up writing by hand.
B. Write and read on screens.
C. Change their writing habits.
D. Keep handwriting practice.
8. Where is the passage probably taken from?
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A. A travel magazine.
B. A student textbook.
C. A science and education magazine.
D. A campus newspaper.

语篇解读 本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了书写对认知的好处及相关研究。
5.A 推理判断题。根据第三段内容可知，书写的好处在于它在书写的过程中调动了多种感官，用手握笔，在纸上施加压力，移动手部写下字母和单词，是一种复杂的认知运动技能，要求我们高度集中注意力，这种更深层次的处理过程，包括将发音与字母对应起来，已被证实对儿童的阅读和拼写能力大有裨益。由此可推知，用手书写的过程是一种复杂的认知运动技能，能调动我们的多种感官。故选A。
6.B 词义猜测题。根据第四段内容可知，为了更好地理解我们的感官如何影响我们的认知，Audrey van der Meer对36名处理写作任务的大学生进行了脑部扫描，他们用纸笔书写或用键盘打字时的脑部活动被脑电图技术捕捉到。B项Recorded意为“记录”，与画线词意思相近。故选B。
7.D 推理判断题。根据最后一段“I think we should have at least a minimum of handwriting in primary school curricula simply because it is so good for the developing brain”可知，van der Meer认为在小学课程中应该至少有基本的书写课程，因为这对儿童的大脑发育极为有益。由此推知，她鼓励人们保留书写习惯。故选D。
8.C 文章出处题。通读全文，尤其根据第一段中“Yet, research shows that putting pen to paper offers cognitive (认知的) benefits that digital tools can't bring.”可知，本文介绍了书写对认知的好处及相关研究，建议人们保留书写习惯。由此可推知，文章应该出自科教类杂志。故选C。