[简答题]What accounts for the astounding popularity of Dr. Phil McGraw Why have so many TV viewers and book buyers embraced this tough warrior of a psychologist who tells them to suck it up and deal with their own problems rather than complaining and blaming everyone else Obviously, Oprah Winfrey has a tot to do with it. She made him famous with regular appearances on her show, and is co-producing the new "Dr. Phil" show that’s likely to be the hottest new daytime offering this fall. But we decided to put Dr. Phil on the cover not just because he’s a phenomenon. (1) We think his success may reflect an interesting shift in the American spirit of time. Could it be that we’re finally getting tired of the culture of victimology
This is a tricky subject, because there are very sad real victims among us. Men still abuse women in alarming numbers. Racism and discrimination persist in subtle and not-so-subtle forms. (2) But these days, almost anyone can find a therapis

[单项选择]What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America―breakthroughs such as the telegraph ,the steamboat and the weaving machine 　　Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country’’s excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology ;the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal," spatial" thinking about things technological. 　　Why mention the elementary schools Because thanks to these schools our early mechanic, especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry. 　　Acute foreign observers related American adaptiveness and inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported," With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline ,the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman." 　　A further stimulus to i
A. Inventive Mind
B. Effective Schooling
C. Ways of Thinking
D. Outpouring of Inventions