

芝加哥大學(xué)公布2020-2021年文書題目!每年,芝加哥大學(xué)都會要求申請者考慮一些不太常見的問題。下面跟托普仕Alice老師一起來看下詳情。
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?qū)⒇悮べu給誰?如果一個土撥鼠可以夾住木頭,那么一個土撥鼠可以夾住多少木頭?(這兩個都是英文的繞口令,主要依靠頭韻來實(shí)現(xiàn)其效果,比如第二個繞口令就是五個“ w”聲音穿插在五個“ ch”聲音和6個“ ood”聲音中)。
請選擇你最喜歡的繞口令(英語繞口令或從由其他語言翻譯而來均可),并用你自己的方法給出答案,你可以從數(shù)學(xué),哲學(xué),語言學(xué)等等不同角度分析,使用什么方法一切取決于您(或你的土撥鼠)。
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?
古代的七門人文學(xué)科包括:四學(xué)科---天文學(xué),數(shù)學(xué),幾何學(xué)和音樂,以及三學(xué)科---修辭學(xué),修辭學(xué),語法和邏輯學(xué)。描述您對四學(xué)科或者三學(xué)科的看法。您認(rèn)為每個人都必須知道什么?
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.
地鐵圖,進(jìn)化樹,路易斯點(diǎn)圖像。這些示意圖都講述了其各個組成部分的關(guān)系和故事。請你重新構(gòu)想一個地圖,圖表或圖表。如果您的作品是視覺作品,作為制圖師,請您請?zhí)峁┲辽?00個單詞的解釋,以幫助我們更好地了解您的創(chuàng)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.
“你感到幸運(yùn)嗎?混蛋?” ---埃莉諾·羅斯福。
這是電影Dirty Harry里面的一句經(jīng)典臺詞。引用了一句名言,并探討這樣做的含義。
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.
工程師George de Mestral對狗的皮毛上粘有毛刺而感到沮喪,并采用了相同的方法制作了魔術(shù)貼。
科學(xué)家Percy Lebaron Spencer在他的磁控管實(shí)驗(yàn)室發(fā)現(xiàn)了一塊融化的巧克力棒,因此發(fā)明了微波烹飪方法。
染廠的老板Jean Baptiste Jolly在用煤油燈敲打桌子后發(fā)現(xiàn)桌布很干凈,因此塑造了干洗技術(shù)。
描述一個創(chuàng)造性的或有趣的解決方案,然后解釋它可以解決的問題。
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!
本著冒險(xiǎn)的精神(在我們在校生的鼓勵下),選擇我們過去的提示之一(或提出您自己的問題)。具有原創(chuàng)性,創(chuàng)造力,發(fā)人深省。你可以是作家,思想家,暢想家,社會評論家,賢哲,世界公民或芝加哥大學(xué)未來公民;冒冒險(xiǎn),祝你玩得開心!
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