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2014-02-24

It is up to the Government to tackle the air pollution problem and ___________ measures in line with the council's suggestions.

A.set about
B.work out
C.fill up
D.bring over

参考答案

B

答案解析

B。政府应该解决空气污染问题,并且依照委员会的建议制定措施。
考查词组和固定搭配。set about,意为“开始,着手”;workout意为“设计出,制定出”;fill up意为“填补,装满”;bring over意为“使转变;使相信”。Work out measures意为“制定政策措施”,符合题意。

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        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, specially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at horn, in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry.
        Acute foreign observers related American adaptiveness and inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported, "With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline, the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman."
        A further stimulus to invention came from the "premium" system, which   preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it.This approach, originated abroad, offered inventors medals, cash prizes and other incentives.In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded at country fairs and at the industrial fairs in major cities.Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.
        Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, American workers took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology.As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process...The designer and the inventor...are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist."
        This nonverbal "spatial" thinking can be just as creative as painting and writing.Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc.like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea."
        When all these shaping forces---schools, open attitudes, the premium system, a genius for spatial thinking--interacted with one another on the rich U.S.mainland, they produced that American characteristic, emulation.Today that word implies mere imitation.But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.

According to the author, the great outburst of major inventions in early America was in a large part due to
A.a special way of thinking
B.enthusiastic workers
C.the attractive premium system
D.elementary school