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通过阅读学习大学英语六级词汇 　　Unit one 　　Elementary Schools in early America 　　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, especia