【考研真題】1996年閱讀4(1/3)
來源:滬江聽寫酷
2013-12-21 08:00
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本文是一篇介紹美國(guó)早期發(fā)明創(chuàng)造熱的文章。
Middle Atlantic states文中6s處有破折號(hào);
19s處、22s處、25s處有分號(hào)
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 country's 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.
在早期美國(guó),像電報(bào)、汽船和織布機(jī)這樣重大的發(fā)明突破紛涌而出,其原因何在?
在諸多形成因素中,我想特別指出如下因素:這個(gè)國(guó)家優(yōu)異的小學(xué)教育;歡迎新技術(shù)的勞動(dòng)大軍;對(duì)發(fā)明者進(jìn)行獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)的做法;尤其是美國(guó)人在處理技術(shù)性事物時(shí)所具有的非語(yǔ)言的空間思維才能。
為什么要提小學(xué)教育?正是因?yàn)橛辛诉@些學(xué)校,我們的早期技工才普遍能讀會(huì)寫,并精通算術(shù)及部分幾何和三角,這種情況在新英格蘭和大西洋中部各州尤為可見。
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