首页
登录
职称英语
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is h
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is h
游客
2023-12-13
72
管理
问题
Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense
is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-product of industrialism—a
sort of psychological analogy of synthetic perfumes and aniline dyes. (1)______
Time is our tyrant. We are chronologically aware of the moving minute (2)______
hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be.
There are trains to be caught, tasks to be done in specified periods, re
cords to be broken by factions of a second, machines that set the pace and (3)______
have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of the smallest units of time is
now big. To us, for example, the moment 8.17 A.M. means something— (4)______
something very important, if happens to be the starting time of our daily (5)______
train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was with signifi- (6)______
cance—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson
were part inventors of time.
Another time-emphasized entity is the factory and its dependent, the (7)______
office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantity of goods (8)______
made in a certain time. The artisan worked as it suited him with the result
that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from
him. The factory is a device for making workman hurry. The machine re
volves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many
pieces produce each hour. Result: the factory worker is compelled to know (9)______
time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such a com- (10)______
pulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds. [br] (10)
选项
答案
a — /
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3269939.html
相关试题推荐
AttherecentInternationalSoundOffinKansasCity-whosecarsand
AttherecentInternationalSoundOffinKansasCity-whosecarsand
AttherecentInternationalSoundOffinKansasCity-whosecarsand
AttherecentInternationalSoundOffinKansasCity-whosecarsand
WhenscientistsattheAustralianInstituteofSportrecentlydecidedtoche
WhenscientistsattheAustralianInstituteofSportrecentlydecidedtoche
WhenscientistsattheAustralianInstituteofSportrecentlydecidedtoche
Inrecentyears,atrendhasemergedinthebehavioralsciencestowardshor
Inrecentyears,atrendhasemergedinthebehavioralsciencestowardshor
Inrecentyears,atrendhasemergedinthebehavioralsciencestowardshor
随机试题
GymCrazeI.ThegymcrazebecomesChinese【T1】______.【T1】______A.asignof
[originaltext]M:Ahem.Excuseme,where’sthemanager?Iwanttoseehim.W:I’
Accordingtothefirstparagraph,whatisthereasonforDisneybrothersin1923
BorninNorthCarolinain1862,WilliamSidneyPorter,thismasterofshort
血浆游离Hb测定,下列何项是不正确的A.比色波长620nm B.需试剂,例如邻
从所给四个选项中,选出最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性?: A.如
保税货物,是指经海关批准未办理纳税手续进境,在境内储存、加工、装配后复运出境的货
两艘以上船舶之间发生撞击造成损害的事故叫做()事故。 A.触损B.碰撞C
在治理管涌与流沙(土)的方法当中,水平向铺设防渗铺盖是截水防渗措施之一。水平向铺
依据《安全生产违法行为行政处罚办法》,对生产经营单位及其有关人员的同一安全生产违
最新回复
(
0
)