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Handwriting has become a dying art, now that kids start using keyboards as soon as they begin school. But writing things out by

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问题     Handwriting has become a dying art, now that kids start using keyboards as soon as they begin school. But writing things out by hand may be a【B1】_____way we train our brains, several studies suggest.
    Writing by hand is different from typing because it requires using【B2】_____to create a letter, rather than just【B3】_____the whole letter by touching a key, says Virginia Berninger, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. These finger movements activate large regions of the brain【B4】_____ thinking, memory, and language.
    Studies show that handwriting helps children learn letters and shapes, improve their composition of ideas, and may also【B5】_____ fine-motor skills development. A study by Berninger found that in grades two, four, and six, children wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing【B6】_____by hand than when typing on a keyboard. Separate study by researchers at Indiana University found that children who practiced【B7】_____by hand had more active brains than kids who simply looked at letters.
    It’s not just children who【B8】_____writing things out by hand, says a study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Adults learning a new language remember its【B9】_____better if they write them out by hand than if they produce them with a keyboard.
    According to P. Murali Doraiswamy of Duke University,【B10】_____people in handwriting skills could be a useful cognitive exercise as more people spend their days on the computer.
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答案boost
解析 根据空格前的may可知，空格处应填入动词(词组)的原形。结合录音可填入boost，意为“提高”。拼写单词时应注意双写字母o。
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