美国社会与文化（浙江理工大学）答案2023秋

第十一章测试

1.Generally speaking, from emergence as an independent nation, the United States has truly encouraged science and innovation. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.__________
A:错 B:对
答案:A
2.In the United States, while nurturing and training a great number of world-famous scientists in its own country, it has also invited many scientists from other countries as well, to help the US become a modern and highly productive world power in the late 20th century._______
A:对 B:错 3.In the video, Tim thinks that technology has allowed the average person to have much more opportunity to learn and participate in the local economy, and even if they work for a major corporation, they can still stay home and work on a computer._________
A:错 B:对 4.During the first half of the 19th century, the first heroic inventor was John Hall who invented the cotton gin in 1794, which was a machine designed to remove the seeds from cotton and it made the cotton industry of the South explode. ________
A:错 B:对 5.A famous American inventors in the early 19th century was Cyrus McCormick who invented his mechanical reaper to harvest countless acres of wheat in the Midwestern plains.________
A:错 B:对 6.Alexander Graham Bell who was a Scottish-born scientist, engineer, inventor and innovator, invented the Internet and allowed people to talk from a long distance. In fact, his new technology of communication has altered the texture of business, war and even politics. ________
A:错 B:对 7.Thomas Edison, an American inventor, who was the most famous inventor during the second half of the 19th century, developed the phonograph, the first long-lasting light bulb, and the first viable movie camera, among many other important inventions. _________
A:错 B:对 8.In 1957, the former Soviet Union first lunched Sputnik I into space, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. Then, four months later, the United States launched its first satellite Explorer I, becoming the second nation to launch a satellite into orbit during the Cold War. ________
A:对 B:错 9.In 1969, the Apollo II was launched in America, and Neil Armstrong, an astronaut became the first human to set foot on the Mars surface. So, even today, his famous words are still echoing in our ears: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. ________
A:错 B:对 10.During the 20th Century, American microprocessor companies were set up in Silicon Valley, California, including Adobe Systems by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, IBM and Apple by Steve Jobs, and Microsoft started in Seattle, Washington._______
A:错 B:对