Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their forms and functions, their dimensions and appearances, were determined by technologists, artisans, designers, inventors, and engineers using nonscientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In the development of Western technology, it has been nonverbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings. Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who built them.
The creative shaping process of a technologist’s mind can be seen in nearly every artifact that exists. For example, in designing a diesel engine, a technologist might impress individual ways of nonverbal
A. Crucial.
B. Of core importance.
C. Trivial.
D. Of reference use.
Many people have difficulty in studying mathematics. Sometimes their difficulty (61) from the psychological idea that they are "no good (62) math". It has been demonstrated many times that it is often this idea (63) is causing their problems (64) than any lack of skill in mathematics. The (65) way to deal with this problem is to (66) yourself that math "involves using the same numbers you have been using (67) your life and that you know them as well as (68) else". Then set your mind to learning how they are used in the (69) part of mathematics you are studying.
Another problem many people (70) is that in mathematics, unlike some other (71) you may have studied, the material has a very important (72) or order. If you don’t understand a (73) of a mathematics text, it is no (74) going on to the next section. Many sections of math books are (75) o
A. while
B. and
C. therefore
D. but
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