考研英语复习指导：通过阅读学词汇（一）.docVIP

考研英语复习指导：通过阅读学词汇（一） Unit oneElementary 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, espec