芝加哥大学公布2020-2021年文书题目!每年,芝加哥大学都会要求申请者考虑一些不太常见的问题。下面跟托普仕Alice老师一起来看下详情。
Essay Option 1
Who does Sally sell her seashells to? How much wood can a woodchuck really chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pick a favorite tongue twister (either originally in English or translated from another language) and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you (or your woodchuck).
莎莉将贝壳卖给谁?如果一个土拨鼠可以夹住木头,那么一个土拨鼠可以夹住多少木头?(这两个都是英文的绕口令,主要依靠头韵来实现其效果,比如第二个绕口令就是五个“ w”声音穿插在五个“ ch”声音和6个“ ood”声音中)。
请选择你最喜欢的绕口令(英语绕口令或从由其他语言翻译而来均可),并用你自己的方法给出答案,你可以从数学,哲学,语言学等等不同角度分析,使用什么方法一切取决于您(或你的土拨鼠)。
Essay Option 2
What can actually be divided by zero?
什么可以被0整除?
Essay Option 3
The seven liberal arts in antiquity consisted of the Quadrivium — astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and music — and the Trivium — rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Describe your own take on the Quadrivium or the Trivium. What do you think is essential for everyone to know?
古代的七门人文学科包括:四学科---天文学,数学,几何学和音乐,以及三学科---修辞学,修辞学,语法和逻辑学。描述您对四学科或者三学科的看法。您认为每个人都必须知道什么?
Essay Option 4
Subway maps, evolutionary trees, Lewis diagrams. Each of these schematics tells the relationships and stories of their component parts. Reimagine a map, diagram, or chart. If your work is largely or exclusively visual, please include a cartographer's key of at least 300 words to help us best understand your creation.
地铁图,进化树,路易斯点图像。这些示意图都讲述了其各个组成部分的关系和故事。请你重新构想一个地图,图表或图表。如果您的作品是视觉作品,作为制图师,请您请提供至少300个单词的解释,以帮助我们更好地了解您的创作。
Essay Option 5
"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" - Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattribute a famous quote and explore the implications of doing so.
“你感到幸运吗?混蛋?” ---埃莉诺·罗斯福。
这是电影Dirty Harry里面的一句经典台词。引用了一句名言,并探讨这样做的含义。
Essay Option 6
Engineer George de Mestral got frustrated with burrs stuck to his dog’s fur and applied the same mechanic to create Velcro. Scientist Percy Lebaron Spencer found a melted chocolate bar in his magnetron lab and discovered microwave cooking. Dye-works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly found his tablecloth clean after a kerosene lamp was knocked over on it, consequently shaping the future of dry cleaning. Describe a creative or interesting solution, and then find the problem that it solves.
工程师George de Mestral对狗的皮毛上粘有毛刺而感到沮丧,并采用了相同的方法制作了魔术贴。
科学家Percy Lebaron Spencer在他的磁控管实验室发现了一块融化的巧克力棒,因此发明了微波烹饪方法。
染厂的老板Jean Baptiste Jolly在用煤油灯敲打桌子后发现桌布很干净,因此塑造了干洗技术。
描述一个创造性的或有趣的解决方案,然后解释它可以解决的问题。
Essay Option 7
In the spirit of adventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our current students!) choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun!
本着冒险的精神(在我们在校生的鼓励下),选择我们过去的提示之一(或提出您自己的问题)。具有原创性,创造力,发人深省。你可以是作家,思想家,畅想家,社会评论家,贤哲,世界公民或芝加哥大学未来公民;冒冒险,祝你玩得开心!
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