时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:00.77]1994 Passage5
[00:03.29]Discoveries in science and technology
[00:06.22]are thought by "untaught minds"
[00:08.74]to come in blinding flashes
[00:11.06]or as the result of dramatic accidents.
[00:14.29]Sir Alexander Fleming did not,
[00:16.72]as legend would have it,
[00:18.53]look at the mold on a piece of cheese
[00:20.85]and get the idea for penicillin 1 there and then.
[00:24.88]He experimented with antibacterial substances
[00:27.91]for nine years before he made his discovery.
[00:31.84]Inventions and innovations almost always come out
[00:35.22]of laborious 2 trial and error.
[00:38.05]Innovation is like soccer;
[00:40.36]even the best players miss the goal
[00:42.59]and have their shots blocked much more frequently
[00:45.61]than they score.
[00:47.62]The point is that the players
[00:49.36]who score most are the ones
[00:51.18]who take the most shots at the goal
[00:54.00]--and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity.
[00:58.54]The prime difference between innovators
[01:01.06]and others is one of approach.
[01:03.98]Everybody gets ideas,
[01:05.50]but innovators work consciously on theirs,
[01:08.73]and they follow them through
[01:10.45]until they prove practicable or otherwise.
[01:14.18]What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions,
[01:17.90]professional innovators see as solid possibilities.
[01:22.54]"Creative thinking may mean simply the realization
[01:25.77]that there's no particular virtue 4 in doing things the way
[01:28.80]they have always been done,"
[01:30.71]wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language authority.
[01:34.34]This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations
[01:37.98]like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels
[01:42.21]that make life more convenient:
[01:44.82]"How come nobody thought of that before?"
[01:48.34]The creative approach begins with the proposition
[01:51.58]that nothing is as it appears.
[01:53.99]Innovators will not accept
[01:55.70]that there is only one way to do anything.
[01:58.83]Faced with getting from A to B,
[02:01.14]the average person will automatically set out
[02:03.87]on the best-known and apparently 5 simplest route.
[02:07.71]The innovator 3 will search for alternate courses,
[02:10.74]which may prove easier in the long run
[02:13.06]and are bound to be more interesting
[02:14.97]and challenging even if they lead to dead ends.
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[02:19.30]Highly creative individuals really do march to
[02:22.52]a different drummer.


1 penicillin
n.青霉素,盘尼西林
  • I should have asked him for a shot of penicillin.我应当让他给我打一针青霉素的。
  • Penicillin was an extremely significant medical discovery.青霉素是极其重要的医学发现。
2 laborious
adj.吃力的,努力的,不流畅
  • They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.他们接受了伐大树的艰苦工作。
  • Ants and bees are laborious insects.蚂蚁与蜜蜂是勤劳的昆虫。
3 innovator
n.改革者;创新者
  • The young technical innovator didn't lose heart though the new system was not yet brought into a workable condition. 尽管这种新方法尚未达到切实可行的状况,这位青年技术革新者也没有泄气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Caesar planned vast projects and emerged as a great innovator. 恺撒制定了庞大的革新计划。 来自英汉非文学 - 文明史
4 virtue
n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力
  • He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
  • You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。
5 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
afterdeal
Alfacol
archival storage and recovery program
Asiatic flying squirrel
atlantic times
basic grasp
Batamshinskiy
beater cover
black markets
bodybags
buffer bar
buyer surveys
cal (computer-assisted learning)
Cantalice
Carrara
Cartholic
castlettes
cellulose nitrate plastic
certified reference coal
collectivisation
competitive trials
conservation officer
decimal printing
diphen-
dual isogeny
famulated
filling main
fish-and-chips
fleuss apparatus
flow guide
gas source molecular beam epitaxy
genus erucas
ginsenoside
gonocristae
halakoth
Halbwertsdosis
half round nosing
HBLA
hide your light under a bushel
hillir
hire purchase system
hoefer
hornberg
hypoischium (or hypogastroid)
input linear group
job creator
jumble sale
Kawabata
key-operated brake
km(kilo-meter(s))
Krossen
lambruscoes
long-duration repair
loss from amalgamation
low-index material
mag-stripe card
medium-depth
memory logic
mesomeric ion
Metanacrite
mezereon
neutraliztion
nomination technique
obligatio alternatiua
off break
Orange Group
palaeovolcanism
patenty
Peoples Insurance Company of China
plantain-eater
Plantation walking horse
Ponsonby rule
protein-bound iodine
pyroline
Qoeckenstedt's test
re-unifications
reactor vessel head
redolent of
reference operator
reservoir bed
reversing gas turbine
rifaldazine
school design
schuell
SEMPA
skenderija
sodium acetate trihydrate
spectro-chemical analysis
stachowski
subterminally
superior people's court
taulers
temporary storage channel
the surroundings
thyatirids
tinkliest
tooth trst
tortricidaes
trouserlegs
Veronica deltigera
vesiculose
Vulcanalia