2015考研复习已处于强化阶段,阅读理解是考研英语中分值最高的部分,好记性不如烂笔头,多做练习题,在做题过程中记忆、熟悉句型,理解长难句,一举多得,希望大家认真复习,注意做题时间。 What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America -- breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine? Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the countrys excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, spatial thinking about things technological. Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics, especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry. Acute foreign observers related American adaptiveness and inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported, With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline, the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman. A further stimulus to invention came from the premium system, which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it. This approach, originated abroad, offered inventors medals, cash prizes and other incentives. In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded at country fairs and at the industrial fairs in major cities. Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance. Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, the American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, A technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process... The designer and the inventor... are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist. This nonverbal spatial thinking can be just as creative as painting and writing. Robert Fulton once wrote, The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc., like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea. When all these shaping forces -- schools, open attitudes, the premium system, a genius for spatial thinking -- interacted with one another on the rich U.S. mainland, they produced that American characteristic, emulation. Today that word implies mere imitation. But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence. 习题 1. According to the author, the great outburst of major inventions in early America was in a large part due to ________. [A] elementary schools [B] enthusiastic workers [C] the attractive premium system [D] a special way of thinking 2. It is implied that adaptiveness and inventiveness of the early American mechanics ________. [A] benefited a lot from their mathematical knowledge [B] shed light on disciplined school management [C] was brought about by privileged home training [D] owed a lot to the technological development 3. A technologist can be compared to an artist because ________. [A] they are both winners of awards [B] they are both experts in spatial thinking [C] they both abandon verbal description [D] they both use various instruments 4. The best title for this passage might be ________. [A] Inventive Mind [B] Effective Schooling [B] Ways of Thinking [D] Outpouring of Inventions
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