Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. "America is therefore the land of the future," the German philosopher Hegel wrote. "The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European," Albert Einstein concurred. "Life for him is always becoming, never being."
In 2012, America will still be the place where the future happens first, for that is the nation's oldest tradition. The early Puritans lived in almost Stone Age conditions, but they were inspired by visions of future glories, God's kingdom on earth. The early pioneers would sometimes travel past perfectly good farmland, because they were convinced that even more amazing land could be found over the next ridge. The founding Fathers took 13 scraggly colonies and believed they were creating a new nation on earth. The railroad speculators envisioned magnificent fortunes built on bands of iron. It's now fashionable to ridicule the visions of dot-com entrepreneurs of the 1990s, but they had inherited the urge to leap for the horizon. "The Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation," Herman Melville wrote. "The Future is the Bible of the Free."
This future-mindedness explains many modern features of American life. It explains workaholism: the average American works 350 hours a year more than the average European. Americans move more, in search of that brighter tomorrow, than people in other land. They also, sadly, divorce more, for the same reason. Americans adopt new technologies such as online shopping and credit cards much more quickly than people in other countries. Forty-five percent of world Internet use takes place in the United States. Even today, after the bursting of the stock-market bubble, American venture-capital firms—which are in the business of betting on the future—dwarf the firms from all other nations.
Future-mindedness contributes to the disorder in American life, the obliviousness to history, the high rates of family breakdown, the frenzied waste of natural resources. It also leads to incredible innovations. According to the Yale historian Paul Kennedy, 75 percent of the Nobel laureates in economies and the sciences over recent decades have lived or worked in the United States. The country remains a magnet for the future-minded from other nations. One in twelve Americans has enjoyed the thrill and challenge of starting his own business. A study published in the Journal of International Business Studies in 2000 showed that innovative people are spread pretty evenly throughout the globe, but Americans are most comfortable with risk. Entrepreneurs in the U. S. are more likely to believe that they possess the ability to shape their own future than people in, say, Britain, Australia or Singapore.
If the 1990s were a great decade of future-mindedness, we are now in the midst of a season of experience. It seems cooler to be skeptical, to pooh-pooh all those IPO suckers who lost their money betting on the telecom future. But the world is not becoming more French. By 2012, this period of chastisement will likely have run its course, and future-mindedness will be back in vogue, for be
A.To serve as the background information of the passage.
B.To provide readers with an example of future-mindedness.
C.To show the pioneering spirit of the land developer.
D.To show the typical American characteristic of exploration and imagination.
第1题
直接抗球蛋白试验可用于检查
A、被检者血清中是否含不完全抗体
B、被检者红细胞表面是否吸附不完全抗体
C、被检者红细胞表面是否吸附相应的抗原
D、被检者血清中是否含有相应的血型物质
E、ABO正向定型
第2题
A.被检者血清中是否含不完全抗体
B.被检者红细胞表面是否吸附不完全抗体
C.被检者红细胞表面是否吸附相应的抗原
D.被检者血清中是否含有相应的血型物质
E.ABO正向定型
第9题
下列关于直接抗人球蛋白试验的叙述,错误的是
A.检测红细胞表面有无不完全抗体
B.检测血清中有无不完全抗体
C.加抗人球蛋白血清发生凝集
D.直接抗人球蛋白试验阳性不一定发生溶血
E.冷凝集素综合征、阵发性冷性血红蛋白尿时阳性
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