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
自考
Factors for America’ s Inventiveness What accounts for the great outburst of major【W1】______in early America—breakthroughs su
Factors for America’ s Inventiveness What accounts for the great outburst of major【W1】______in early America—breakthroughs su
admin
2019-08-15
90
问题
Factors for America’ s Inventiveness
What accounts for the great outburst of major【W1】______in early America—breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?
Among the many shaping factors, I would【W2】______out the country’ s excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of【W3】______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【W4】______of geometry and trigonometry.
Acute foreign observers related American【W5】______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【W6】______, 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【W7】______their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.
Given this optimistic【W8】______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【W9】______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 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【W10】______imitation. But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
【W9】
选项
答案
D
解析
此处需要动词的过去分词。be reduced to简化为……
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bakR777K
本试题收录于:
英语(一)题库公共课分类
0
英语(一)
公共课
相关试题推荐
BessieColemanBessiewasborninAtlanta,Texasin1893.HerfatherwasanIndianandhermotheranAfricanAmerican.Herfa
WorkinginGermanyJuanMoralesis19yearsold.HehaslefthisparentswholiveonasmallfarminSpain.Henowworksina
WorkinginGermanyJuanMoralesis19yearsold.HehaslefthisparentswholiveonasmallfarminSpain.Henowworksina
HowtoImproveaChild’sAppetiteMostchildrenwith【C1】______(health)appetitesarereadytoeatalmostanythingthatiso
FactorsforAmerica’sInventivenessWhataccountsforthegreatoutburstofmajor【W1】______inearlyAmerica—breakthroughssu
HelpChildrentoBuildupSelf-ConfidenceSelf-confidenceisimportanttoachievesuccess.Childrenaresensitiveandneeden
NuclearPowerIsnuclearpowerreallyamonster?No,definitelynot.Firstofall,nuclearpowerismuchsaferthanother
TheChangeofBBCWiththe【W1】______ofBBCWorldServiceTelevision,millionsofviewersinAsiaandAmericacannowwatchth
NuclearPowerIsnuclearpowerreallyamonster?No,definitelynot.Firstofall,nuclearpowerismuchsaferthanothe
HeritageHomeSchoolChildrenareourfuture,andit’suptoustoarmthemwiththetoolstosucceed.Sadly,today’schil
随机试题
A.humorousandhospitableB.cheapandefficientC.traditionalandfamousD.bothancientandmodernE.fasterbutmoreexpens
A.微动脉B.毛细血管前括约肌C.毛细血管D.真毛细血管决定血液和组织液之间进行物质交换面积的是
主动脉瓣狭窄二尖瓣关闭不全
A、对乙酰氨基酚B、布洛芬C、西咪替丁D、氢化可的松E、氢溴酸右美沙芬仅用于止咳的非处方药是()。
根据我国法律制度的规定,下列各项中,能够成为法律关系主体的有()。
甲、乙公司为丙公司控制下的两家子公司。甲公司于2020年1月1日自丙公司处取得乙公司80%的股权。合并后乙公司仍维持独立法人资格继续经营。为进行此项企业合并,甲公司发行了700万股本公司普通股(每股公允价值为2.8元)作为对价,甲公司为发行该股份发生手续费
进入教学过程的社会生活应该是原生态的。()
科技馆为某机器人编制一段程序,如果机器人在平地上按照图中所示的步骤行走,那么该机器人所走的总路程为多少米?()
甲、乙两企业同时掌握某一产品的核心技术,为保证企业利润,双方签订了包括如下内容的协议:(1)明确该产品的全国统一售价为1000元/件;(2)划定双方的销售区域;(3)各方投放市场的产品数量不能超过5000件;(4)联合打击损害双方利益的侵权行为。该协议中违
Parisislikepornography.Yourespondevenifyoudon’twantto.Youturnacornerandseeavista,andyourimaginationbolts
最新回复
(
0
)