首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-produ
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-produ
admin
2012-10-19
71
问题
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense
is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-product of industrialism—a
sort of psychological analogy of synthetic perfumes and aniline dyes. (1)______
Time is our tyrant. We are chronologically aware of the moving minute (2)______
hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be.
There are trains to be caught, tasks to be done in specified periods, re
cords to be broken by factions of a second, machines that set the pace and (3)______
have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time is
now big. To us, for example, the moment 8.17 A.M. means something— (4)______
something very important, if happens to be the starting time of our daily (5)______
train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was with signifi- (6)______
cance—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson
were part inventors of time.
Another time-emphasized entity is the factory and its dependent, the (7)______
office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantity of goods (8)______
made in a certain time. The artisan worked as it suited him with the result
that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from
him. The factory is a device for making workman hurry. The machine re
volves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many
pieces produce each hour. Result: the factory worker is compelled to know (9)______
time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such a com- (10)______
pulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.
(10)
选项
答案
a — /
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/POiO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Thetwentiethcenturysawgreatchange.Inyouropinion,whatisonechangethatshouldberememberedaboutthetwentiethcentu
Duringthetraditionalweddingceremony,theCD#6bridalcouplepromiseseachotherlifelong【M1】______devotion.Yet,a
Note-takinginLecturesForlisteners,note-takingisanessentialwaytoachievebetter-understandingofalecture.Itinvo
Note-takinginLecturesForlisteners,note-takingisanessentialwaytoachievebetter-understandingofalecture.Itinvo
ThetasteoftheEnglishinthecultivationofland,andinwhatiscalledlandscapegardening,isunrivalled.Theyhavestudied
Thedaysofhisyouthappearedlikedreamsbeforehim,andherecalledtheseriousmomentwhenhisfatherplacedhimattheentr
Havingsaidallofthis,Ishould,perhaps,locatemyself.IteachandwriteaboutalooseandbaggyterritorycalledLasAmeric
Rabiesisanordinarilyinfectiousdiseaseofthecentralnervoussystem,causedbyavirusand,asarule,spreadchieflybydo
Rabiesisanordinarilyinfectiousdiseaseofthecentralnervoussystem,causedbyavirusand,asarule,spreadchieflybydo
随机试题
眼球内容物包括①____________、②____________和③____________,它们皆有④____________作用。
诊断癫痫的主要辅助检查为
出血性与缺血性脑血管疾病的鉴别,除临床表现外,最有诊断意义的辅助检查是
保荐人的资格及其管理办法由()规定。
甲、乙、丙共同投资设立一个普通合伙企业,合伙协议对合伙人的资格取得或丧失未作约定。合伙企业存续期间,甲因车祸去世,甲的妻子丁是唯一继承人。根据合伙企业法律制度的规定,下列表述中,正确的是()。
阿里山山间保留有完好的原始森林,树种多样,是难得的“天然的森林博物馆”。()
在党的正式文件中第一次把“尊重并保障人权”写进文件的,是在党的()报告中。
人民警察认为决定和命令有错误的,可以按照规定提出意见,但不得中止或者改变决定和命令的执行。()
某公司网络DHCP服务器地址为192.168.0.2,可分配IP地址为192.168.0.6~192.168.0.254,缺省网关的地址为192.168.0.1,DNS服务器地址为192.168.0.2。网络中某客户机从服务器获取IP地址后,在客户机上执行
有以下程序:#include<stdio.h>main(){FILE*fp;inta[10]={1,2,3,0,0},i;fp=fopen("d2.dat","wb");fwrite(a,sizeof(int),5,fp);fwrite(a
最新回复
(
0
)