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| 文章出处：学生大考试站 发布时间：2005-10-12 |
enthusiastic workers
elementary schools
special way of thinking
the attractive premium system
27.It is implied that adaptiveness and inventiveness of the early American mechanics .
shed light on disciplined school management
nefited a lot from their mathematical knowledge
was brought about by privileged home training
owed a lot to the technological development
28.A technologist can be compared to an artist because .
they both use various instruments
they are both winners of awards
they both abandon verbal description
ey are both experts in spatial thinking
29.What does "emulation", the American characteristic, refer to?
Good education.
Non-verbal thinking.
Spatial thinking.
iendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
30.The best title for this passage might be .
Ways of Thinking
Effective Schooling
ventive Mind
Outpouring of Inventions
Passage3
I am an amateur, a man who does a thing because he loves doing it. The amateur's lot is not an easy one in a country run by antiamatures: experts, specialists, and perfectionists. They call us dabblers (涉猎者) because we can't do a thing well.
They are wrong. The truth is, we are so crazy about doing a thing that we don't mind doing it badly. What makes us really suspect to all true — blood, regular nonamatures is that we practice a particular pursuit without any hope of financial reward. We don't want to improve our standard of living. We want to improve our lives.
Time was when gifted dabblers pioneered new thought and stimulated discovery. Think of Leonardo da Vinci, amateur physicist and a mature builder. Goethe, diligent mathematician and statesman. Voltaire, Humboldt, Edison, Thoreau, Ford — fellow amateurs with brilliant ideas, men of universal rather than specialized thinking. But today universality is unpopular, individualism is dangerous, nonconformism is suspect. The amateur, a man of strong personality, an individualist and nonconformist (不合规范者), must not be taken seriously. Experts tell you everything right down the line — how to live, how to be adjusted, what to eat, where to go. If you don't happen to be an expert of sorts, you're a "dope" — an amateur.
31.The phrase that best expresses the ideas of the passage is .
working without pay
praise of amateurs
the century of the expert
the expert's superiority
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