时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


英语课
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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
abandonment of patent privileges
abomine
Admiralty B.
age of hardening
Altamahaw
alternating-current torque motor
anaplasties
aplacophora
backup roll extractor
ballenas
bed-lifts
biopotency
BLVDS
bodym
calta
cell concentration
channel course
compass declinometer
computeritis
condensation adiabat
conjugated protein
cushion stability at large angle
cyprine
Dassow
determined to
Dge-lugs-pa
dicirenone
dietitians
dinerstein
draught adjusting
echo check technique
Elk Mound
epimerizable
excitovascular
external auditing
film cut-out
fissionables
flosser
genus Gliricidia
give the willies
guild socialism
heat injection noise
hemochrome
hose with fabric insert
Hydrophiloidea
hydroxylate
idiopathic sideroblastic anemia
income brackets
information file
intermediate sugar
Jean de La Fontaine
jevens effect
lewton
low farming
low-pressure safety valve
lubricating method
mistake of law
MMOs
modern well test analysis
Montels
moondials
most powerful test
Musica
Mycoplasma orale
nabih
narratage
neologous
not worth asnap
odd term
oil bank
parol evidence rule
pathwidths
pickle sheet
pin type flexible coupling
pole-zero plot
programmable terminal
public sentiment
put someone on a pedestal
Quakery
quaking grass
quantum noise
ramp load change
Ranke, Leopold von
rctc
resistance allele
Rio Novo
rotorman
rubber-hose clamp
scraping mechanism
SEbS
signal translating system
spring joint computer conference
Sutura frontonasalis
tillaetia caries (dc.)tulasne
trabboch
traumatic neurasthenia
unnipped
vacillators
vector group symbol of a transformer
veritablement
weighted residual
zakouski