ETS—5考試含筆試和口試兩個部分，其中筆試考查內容包括：聽力、語言知識運用、閱讀、寫作。筆試和口試均合格者，方可獲得教育部考試中心頒發的合格證書。以下是yjbys網小編整理的關於公共英語五級，供大家備考。
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Children who grip their pens too close to the writing point are likely to be at a disadvantage in examinations，(31) ___to the first serious investigation into the way in which writing technique Can dramatically affect educational achievement.
The survey of 643 children and adults，ranking from pre-school t0 40-plus，also suggests(32) ___pen—holding techniques have deteriorated sharply over one generation，with teachers now paying far(33) ___attention to correct pen grip and handwriting style.
Stephanie Thomas，a learning support teacher(34)—___findings have been published，was inspired to investigate this area(35) ___he noticed that those students who had the most trouble with spelling(36) ___had a poor pen e as could not establish a significant statistical link(37) ___pen—holing style and accuracy in spelling，he(38) ___find huge differences in technique between the young children and the mature adults，and a definite(39) ___between near—point gripping and slow，illegible writing.
People who(40) ___—their pens at the writing point also show other characteristics(41) ___inhibit learning，(42) ___as poor posture，leaning too(43) ___to the desk，using four fingers to grip the penn(44) ___than three，and clumsy positioning of the thumb(which can obscure(45)——is being written).
as believes that the(46) ___between elder and younger writers is(47) ___too dramatic to be accounted for simply by the possibility that people get better at writing as they grow(48) ___ attributes it to a failure to teach the most effective methods，pointing out that the differences between(49) ___groups coincides with the abandonment of formal handwriting instruction in classrooms in the sixties.“The 30-year- old showed a huge diversity of grips，(50) ___me over 40s group all had a uniform‘tripod’grip.”
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根據一項對於握筆姿勢大幅影響考試成績的調查，那些握筆十分靠近筆尖的學生很可能在考試中處於劣勢。
本次調查涉及643人，從學齡前兒童到40多歲的成年人，調查表明握筆技術在一代人的時間裡大幅退步，現在的老師已經不像以前那樣重視糾正學生的握筆姿勢和書寫方式了。
斯蒂芬尼·托馬斯是一名助教，已經發表了他的發現，在他注意到那些拼寫有困難的'學生握筆習慣也不好的時候，受到啟發開始調查這一領域。雖然托馬斯先生不能在握筆方式和拼寫正確性之間建立明確的統計學關聯，但是他卻發現小孩子和成人之間的握筆技術有很大的差別，而握筆靠近筆尖與緩慢而難以辨認的書寫之間存在明確關聯。
握筆靠近筆尖的人也顯示出了其他的一些妨礙學習的特點，如坐姿很差、太靠近桌子、用4個手指而不是3個手指握筆和大拇指位置放得不對(這會使寫的字跡模糊)。
托馬斯先生認為，對比老年人和年輕人的書寫太過明顯不能簡單得出人年齡越大字寫得越好的說法。他認為這是因為沒有教授最有效的方法，並指出不同年齡段的人之間寫字的不同恰巧出現在60年代課堂裡放棄對寫字的指導之後。“30歲的人表現出非常不同的握筆方式，而超過40歲的人統一都用3隻手指握筆”。
