MUNICH— Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci were in the club; Bill Clinton and Bill Gates are also among its most famous members.

Left-handed people, however, are considered less intelligent or unskillful with their hands.

Schools in many countries may allow children to write with their left hands, but in the meantime “the idea that children should be re-educated to write with right hands has not yet been removed from the heads of many parents and grandparents,” says Elizabeth Werthmueller of the Left-handers’ Initiative in Fulda in central Germany.

International Left-handed Day was held on August 13, 1976 ---it was a public holiday-- in the USA.

Nowadays interest is steadily growing and there are several advice centers to provide advice and actively campaign against the opinion that left-handers are unskillful.

Psychologist and psychotherapist（精神病医生）Johanna Barbara Sattler, who founded the first advice center for left-handers in Munich in 1985,can only shake her head over some of the conclusions she’s heard. “Left-handed people die nine years earlier than the right-handers” is one rumor.（谣言）

Sattler says that the process of changing writing hands means a sudden attack on the brain. Memory and speech defects（缺点）are the results, she says, because left or right-handedness, which scientists say is in any case inherited（遗传）, is controlled by the hemispheres（大脑半球）of the brain. These are connected to the opposite body-half by crossed nerves.

In left-handers, the right hemisphere is functionally dominant（支配）. It is primarily responsible for determining space preferences and thought. This explains why left-handed people are often described as particularly creative.

But in the workplace, they often have problems in using technical devices. However, it is always better to choose another job than to be forced to use the right hand, says Expert Sattler.

In contrast to 30 years ago, left-handers are no longer forced to switch to their right hand in German schools, yet many teachers still have no idea how they can help left-handers with practical advice. Instead, these children often have to hear that they have to get along with “the problem” themselves.

1．The first paragraph tells us that ___________.

A．scientists in the world are all left-handers

B．artists in the world are all left-handers

C．famous people all over the world are members of this special club

D．some famous people may be left-handers

2．From the third paragraph, we learn that ___________.

A．students in many schools must write with their left hand

B．students in many schools sometimes write with their left hand

C．many parents insist that students write with their right hand

D．many parents insist that students write with both hands

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3. It shows in this passage that left-handers are ____________.

A．unskillful in the workshop                     B．often full of imagination in their work

C．always trying to defeat right-handers     D．often simple-minded and foolish

4．From the last two paragraph we find that ________.

A．people’s opinion about left-handers has changed

B．German students seldom get help from their teachers

C．left-handers at German schools feel disappointed

D．left-handers at German schools find no trouble using anything