正确答案: C

Science course is not important and should be replaced by Design courses.

题目：请阅读 Passage 1,完成 1~5小题。 　　Passage 1 　　Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science,but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance,were determined by technologists,artisans,designers,inventors, and engineers-use nonscientific modes of thought.This kind of thinking way is different from science.Many features and qualities ofthe objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with the mind by a visual,nonverbal process.In the development of Western technology,it has been non-verbal 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 thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness. What would be the shape of the combustion chamber? Where should valves be placed? Should it have a long or short piston? Such questions have a range of answers that are supplied by experience,by physical requirements,by limitations of available space,and not least by a sense of form.Some decisions such as wall thickness and pin diameter,may depend on scientific calculations,but the nonscientific component of design remains primary. 　　Design courses,then,should be an essential element in engineering curriculum.Nonverbal thinking of a central mechanism in engineering design,involves perceptions,the stock-in-trade of the artist,not the scientist.Because perceptive processes are not assumed to entail "hard thinking" , nonverbal thought is sometimes seen as a primitive stage in the development of cognitive Process and inferior to verbal or mathematical thought.But it is paradoxical that when the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometric views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering,the only college students with the requisite abilities were not engineering students,but rather students attending architectural schools. 　　If courses in design,which in a strongly analytical engineering curriculum provide the background required for practical problem-solving,are not provided.we can expect to encounter silly but costly errors occurring in advanced engineering systems.For example,early models of high-speed railroad cars loaded with sophisticated controls were unable to operate in a snowstorm because a fan sucked snow into the electrical system.absurd random failures that plague automatic control systems are not merely trivial aberrations: they are a reflection of the chaos that results when design is assumed to be primarily a problem in mathematics.

解析：细节题。根据第三段中的“Nonverbal thinking a central mechanism in engineering design，involves perceptions，the stock-in-trade of the artist，not the scientist.”可知，A项正确，根据第四段中的“If courses in design，which in a strongly analytical engineering curriculum provide the background required for practical problem-solving,are not provided.we can expect to encounter silly but costly errors occurring in advanced engineering systems.”可知，B、D两项均正确。C项文中未提到，因此本题选C。

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[单选题]If a teacher shows students how to do an activity before they start doing it,he/she is using the technique of________.

demonstration

解析：本题考查教学技巧。题干：如果教师在让学生开始做一个活动前先向他们展示活动是如何进行的，那么他／她使用的是什么技巧？A项“呈现”，B项“示范”，C项“启发”，D项“评价”。根据题意可知，本题选B。

[单选题]When the teacher asks students to read a text for the main idea,he/she intends to develop students' skill of_______.

skimming

解析：本题考查阅读技能。题干：教师让学生读文章获取大意，目的是训练学生的什么能力？A项“复述”，B项“预测”，C项“略读”，D项“寻读”。略读是一种快速浏览的阅读方式，其目的是了解文章的大意。故本题选C。

[单选题]某位数学教师在讲授"直角三角形"这一概念时，不仅用常见的图示◣来说明，还用◤、◥、◢等图示来说明。他在这里所运用的教学活动方式是( )。

变式直观

解析：变式一是指通过变更对象的非本质特征以突出对象的本质特征而形成的表现形式：二是指通过变更对象的本质特征以突出对象的非本质特征，从而显示概念的内涵发生了变化。题干中为前一种。

[单选题]学校产生于( )。

奴隶社会时期

解析：学校产生于奴隶社会，我国夏代就有了学校教育的形态。

[多选题]儿童心理纷繁复杂，其发展的总趋势既是向上的，同时又是可逆的。( )

解析：个体身心发展是一个由低级到高级、简单到复杂、由量变到质变的过程。发展的总趋势是向上的，且不可逆的。