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Passage one Many obj ects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science,but their form and functlon’their dlmensions and
Passage one Many obj ects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science,but their form and functlon’their dlmensions and
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Passage one
Many obj ects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science,but their form and functlon’their dlmensions and appearance,were determined by technologists,artisans,designers,Inventors,and engineers—using nonscientific modes of thought.Many features and aualities of the obj ects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descry Dtions;they are dealt with in the mind by a visual,nonverbal process.In the development of Western technology,it has been nonverbal thinking,by and large,that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.Pyramids,cathedrals,and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics,but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who built them.
The creatlve shaping process of a technologist’s mind can be seen in nearly everv artifact that exists.For example,in designing a diesel engine,a technologist might impress individual ways of nonverbal thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness. What would be the shape of the combustion chamber?Where should be valves be placed?Should it have a long or short piston?Such questions have a range of answers that are supplied by experience,by physical requirements,by limitations of available space,and not least by a sense of form.
Some decisions such as wall thickness and pin diameter,mav depend on scientific calculations,but the nonscientific component of design remains primary. Design courses,then,should be an essential element in engineering curricula.Nonverbal t hlnking,a central mechanism in engineering design,involves perceptions,the stock—in—trade of the artist,not the scientist.Because perceptive processes are not assumed to entail hard thinking,nonverbal thought 1s sometimes seen as a primitive stage in the development of cognitive Processes and inferior to verbal or mathematical thought.But it is paradoxical that when the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometrlc views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering,the only college students with the requisite abilities were not engineering students,but rather students attending architectural schools.
If courses in design,which in a strongly analytical engineering curriculum provide the background required for practical problem—solving,are not provided,we can expect to encounter silly but costly errors occurring in advanced engineering systems.For example,early models of high—speed railroad cars loaded with sophisticated contr01s were unable to operate in a snowstorm because a fan sucked snow into the electrical system.Absurd random failures that Plague utomatlc control systems are not merely trivial aberrations;they are a reflection of the chaos that results when design is assumed to be primarily a problem in mathematics.
Which of the following statements best illustrates the main point of the first two para—graphs of the text?
选项
A、When a machine like a rotary engine malfunctions,it is the techn010gist who is best e—quipped to repair it
B、Each component of an automobile—for example,the engine or the fuel tank—has a shape that has been scientifically determined to be best suited to that component—s function
C、A telephone is a complex instrument designed by technologists using only nonverbal thought
D、The distinctive features of a suspension bridge reflect its designe,s conceptualization as well 38 the physical requirements of its site
答案
D
解析
本题是一道细节归纳推导题。其实只要考生抓住第一段中的中心主旨句(倒数第二句)和第二段中的中心主旨句(倒数第一句),就不难寻找出本题的正确答案D。另外考生在破解此类题型时还要善于根据中心主旨句进行合理的逻辑推导。
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