Right is right. Right7 Of course. But is left wrong Well, the Romans used to think so. They thought left-handed people were mistakes of nature. Latin, the language of the Romans, had many words that expressed this view. Some words we use today still have this meaning. The Latin word "dexter" means "right". The English word "dexterous" comes from this word. It means "handy" (clever with hands). So, right is handy. But the Latin word for left is "sinister". The English word "sinister" comes from this word. Sinister means "evil" (very bad). Is it fair to call right-handed people handy and left-handed people evil Well, fair or not, many languages have words that express such beliefs. In old English, the word for left means "weak". That isn’t much of an improvement over "evil".
Not very long ago, children were often forced to write with their right hands. Doctors have since found that this can be very harmful. You should use the hand you were born to use.
People who use their left hands are just starting to get better treatment. But why they get all these bad names in the first place One reason may be that there are not as many left-handed people as there are right-handed people. There is one left-handed person for every five right-handed ones. People who are different are often thought to be wrong. But attitudes do seem to be changing. Fair-minded right-handed people are finally starting to give left-handed people a hand.
The last sentence of this article means()
A:fair-minded right-handed people want to change the habit of the left-handed people B:fair-minded right-handed people are starting to help the left-handed people C:fair-minded right-handed people are starting to use left hand to write and so on D:fair-minded right-handed people are starting to give up using their left hands
He (wrote) the story, (typing) it (into) the computer and (handed) it to the chief editor.
A:wrote B:typing C:into D:handed
Passage Five 5
Which of your two hands do you use more Very few of us can use both hands equally well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed. New-born babies can take hold of things with either of their hands, but. in about two years they usually use their right hands. Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other, but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. Next time when you visit a zoo, you’ll see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most of the people use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those left-handed people. We live in a right-handed world.
We live in a right-handed world. It means ( )
A:all the people are right-handed B:life is hard fbr left-handed people C:left-handed people can't live D:there is another left-handed world
Passage Five
Which of your two hands do you use more Very few of us can use both hands equally well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed. New-born babies can take hold of things with either of their hands, but. in about two years they usually use their right hands. Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other, but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. Next time when you visit a zoo, you’ll see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most of the people use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those left-handed people. We live in a right-handed world.
We live in a right-handed world. It means ()
A:all the people are right-handed B:life is hard fbr left-handed people C:left-handed people can't live D:there is another left-handed world
Most of us are right-handed and ______.
A:so are monkeys B:no one is left-handed C:scientists don't know why D:we never use left hands
We live in a right-handed world. It means ______.
A:all the people are right-handed B:life is hard fbr left-handed people C:left-handed people can't live D:there is another left-handed world
Passage Five Which of your two hands do you use more Very few of us can use both hands equally well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed. New-born babies can take hold of things with either of their hands, but. in about two years they usually use their right hands. Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other, but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. Next time when you visit a zoo, you’ll see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most of the people use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those left-handed people. We live in a right-handed world.
We live in a right-handed world. It means ()
A:all the people are right-handed B:life is hard fbr left-handed people C:left-handed people can't live D:there is another left-handed world
He (wrote) the story, (typing) it (into) the computer and (handed) it to the chief editor.
A:wrote B:typing C:into D:handed