首页
登录
职称英语
Near the end of a five-day tour of highly automated, high-tech Japanese fact
Near the end of a five-day tour of highly automated, high-tech Japanese fact
游客
2023-12-09
25
管理
问题
Near the end of a five-day tour of highly automated, high-tech Japanese factories, the American visitor was overwhelmed and feeling a little inferior. Watching a string of gleaming stereo sets move down an assembly line, he turned to the plant manager and said, "Gosh, even your industrial design is better than ours.
"Ah, yes, " replied the manager, "but America has treasures that Japan can never hope to possess. "
"You mean our mineral wealth and bountiful farms? "
"Ah, no. I was referring to Caltech and MIT. "
America’s scientific institutions--its technological universities and government laboratories--are the envy of the world, producing ideas, devices and medicines that have made the U.S. prosperous, improved the lives of people around the globe and profoundly affected their perception of the world and the universe. This tremendous creativity is reflected in the technical reports that are published in scientific journals throughout the world. Fully 35% of them come from scientists doing their research at American institutions.
Yet American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. Many recent U.S. achievements and awards stem in large measure from generous research grants of the past, and any weakening of government and industry commitment to support of basic research could in the next few decades cost the nation its scientific leadership. Some slipping is already divalent. In high-energy physics, where Americans once reigned supreme, Western Europe now spends roughly twice as much money as the U. S. Result: the major high-energy physics discoveries of the past few years have been made not by Americans but by Europeans.
Even so, money alone cannot guarantee scientific supremacy. Freedom of inquiry, an intellectually stimulating environment and continuous recruitment of the best minds must accompany it. That combination has been achieved in many U.S. institutions--educational, governmental and industrial--but perhaps nowhere more successfully than at the National Institutes of Health, Bell Laboratories and Caltech. [br] The example given in the last but one paragraph is mainly used to show ______.
选项
A、western Europe is spending more money than America in certain fields
B、Europeans are making more discoveries than Americans in retain fields
C、European scientists are more intelligent than American scientists
D、America’s scientific leadership is being replaced by European countries
答案
D
解析
在该段中可以看到no longer,not by Americans but by Europeans,这说明美国的领先地位正在逐步被欧洲国家所代替。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3259271.html
相关试题推荐
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Whatmightdrivingonanautomatedhighwaybelike?Theanswerdependsonwh
Thehumanbodyissuitablydescribedas"ahighlycomplexself-genera-tor"
Thehumanbodyissuitablydescribedas"ahighlycomplexself-genera-tor"
Thehumanbodyissuitablydescribedas"ahighlycomplexself-genera-tor"
Thehumanbodyissuitablydescribedas"ahighlycomplexself-genera-tor"
随机试题
Sheisvery_________upsettingherhusband,ashehasaviolenttemper.A、tired
WhatisthenetincomeofMicrosoftfortheyear?[originaltext]TheU.S.te
[originaltext]Acompanymobilephoneorlaptopmightseemlikeabenefitof
结构静力试验加载分级是为了便于观察变形与荷载的关系。()
闪现率效果最好在()。A.2.0~2.2次/s之间时 B.2.4~2.6
以下有关建筑面积指标的计算,正确的有( )。A.建筑容积率=底层建筑面积/建筑占
大叶性肺炎的CT征象不包括A.实变的肺体积增大 B.实变的肺体积不变 C.可
1999-63.胸闷隐痛,时作时休,心悸气短,倦怠懒言,面色少华,头晕目眩,遇
某项目在三种状态下的建设投资及其发生概率如下表所示,则该项目建设投资的期望值为(
关于财务分析中经营成本的说法,正确的是()A:经营成本随融资成本的变化而变化
最新回复
(
0
)