The meanings of "science" and "technology" have changed significantly from one generation to another. More similarities than differences, however, can be found between the terms. 46) Both science and technology imply a thinking process, both are concerned with causal relationships in the material world, and both employ an experimental methodology that results in empirical demonstrations that can be verified by repetition. 47) Science, at least in theory, is less concerned with the practicality of its results and more concerned with the development of general laws, but in practice science and technology are inextricably involved with each other. The varying interplay of the two can be observed in the historical development of such practitioners as chemists, engineers, physicists, astronomers, carpenters, potters, and many other specialists. Differing educational requirements, social status, vocabulary, methodology, and types of rewards, as well as
The meanings of "science" and "technology" have changed significantly from one generation to another. More similarities than differences, however, can be found between the terms. 46) Both science and technology imply a thinking process, both are concerned with causal relationships in the material world, and both employ an experimental methodology that results in empirical demonstrations that can be verified by repetition. 47) Science, at least in theory, is less concerned with the practicality of its results and more concerned with the development of general laws, but in practice science and technology are inextricably involved with each other. The varying interplay of the two can be observed in the historical development of such practitioners as chemists, engineers, physicists, astronomers, carpenters, potters, and many other specialists. Differing educational requirements, social status, vocabulary, methodology, and types of rewards, as well as
"Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk, with poles being clear enough but the middle tending to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930’s, for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music--folk themes--in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one : he took a popular genre-- bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera)- and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. (47) This remains one of the greatest achievements in music, and one that cannot be fully appreciated without recognizing the essential trashiness of the genre.
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"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its traditional meaning is used to (36) a temperature that is fairly cold. As the world has (37) , however, the word has expanded to (38) many different meanings.
"Cool" can be used to express feelings of (39) in almost anything.
When you see a brand-name car in the street, maybe you can’t help (40) . "It’s cool." You might think, "He’s so cool" when you see your (41) footballer.
We all enlarge the meaning of "cool". You can use it (42) many words such as "new" or "amazing". Here’s an interesting story we can see (43) illustrate the usage of the word: A teacher asked her students to (44) the waterfall they had visited. On one student’s paper was just the one (45) , "It’s so cool." (46) he thought it was (
A. important
B. necessary
C. impossible
D. natural
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