中南财经政法大学考博英语模拟真题及其解析.pdfVIP

中国考博辅导首选学校 中南财经政法大学考博英语模拟真题及其解析 Text 1 What accountsforth greatoutburstofmajor inventionsinearly America --breakthroughs suchasth telegraph,th steamboatandth weaving machine? Among th many shapingfactors, Iwould singl outth country’s excellent elementary schools; a labor forc that welcomed th new technology; th practic of giving premiums to inventors; and abov all th American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological. Why mention th elementary schools? Becaus thanks to thes schoolsourearlymechanics, especially inth New England andMiddl Atlantic states, wer generally literat and at hom in arithmetic and in som aspects of geometry and trigonometry. Acut foreign observers related American adaptiveness and Geng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi ji xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua: si ling ling liu liuba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting her in 1853 reported, “With a mind prepared by thorough schooldiscipline,th Americanboy developsrapidly intoth skilled workman.” A furtherstimulusto inventioncam fromth “premium”system, which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it. 中国考博辅导首选学校 This approach, originated abroad, offered inventors medals, cash prizes and other incentives. Inth United States,multitudes ofpremiums fornew deviceswer awarded at countryfairsand at th industrialfairs inmajor cities. Americans flocked to thes fairs to admir th new machines and thus to renew their faith in th beneficenc of technological advance. Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, th American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology. As Eugen Ferguson has po