芝加哥大学官方发布2020-2021Fall文书题目
What’s so odd about odd numbers?
How should apples and oranges be compared?
And where is Waldo?
奇数有什么奇怪的？
苹果和橙子应该如何比较？
沃尔多在哪里？
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。这些附加文书题目可以让你发挥想象力，锻炼自己的创造力或逻辑大脑，分享思维方式，并从中获得一点乐趣。
芝加哥大学公布2020-2021年文书题目！事不宜迟，查查小编已将题目整理翻译出来，一起来看！
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 and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you .
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？。
请选择你最喜欢的绕口令，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。
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 choose one of our past prompts . 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!
我们都知道，芝加哥大学的附加文书题目以难度高而著称，但所谓的难度其实是一种多元或者说开放。文书是学校了解你的一个重要途径，因为录取的标准不仅仅是考试成绩，排在第一位的是为了呈现一个立体的学生形象。
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