2017安默斯特学院文书题：对世界运作原理的洞悉

　　题目1：“严谨的推理在数学中至关重要，而洞察力现在也扮演着第二重要的角色。在自然科学中，这二者的重要性则要反过来。严谨当然非常重要，但是最重要的却是洞察力——对世界万物运作的洞察力。原因可能是科学世界有着另一个正确性担保，即源自观察和实验的实证数据。”

　　——Kannan Jagannathan，物理学教授，安默斯特学院。

　　此题属于选项A：请在300字内回答此引文，你不必对引文的来源进行研究、阅读或参考，我们希望你能给出原创性的个人回答，请记住你的文章应该是关于你自己的，而不仅仅是一篇议论文。

　　Prompt 1: “Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments.”

　　Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, Amherst College（NOTE: Option A:

　　Please respond to one of the following quotations in an essay of not more than 300 words. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.）

　　解析：申请者先要了解这句话的相关的历史背景和在那个历史环境下的意思，谈谈自己对....

　　范文：

　　对我来说，学习生物不是一个枯燥的学习过程，而是探索生物中的奇妙故事。高二前的那个暑假，我在牛津大学上了一门分子医药学的课程。课程老师是一位研究员，他通过讲解他所做的众多研究来给我们上课。每堂课都像幼儿园里讲故事时间的再现，学生们围坐在老师周围，认真听着当天的故事。虽然不能明确理解每个细节，我仍像个6岁孩子似得渴望那些故事。

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　　Investigating the wonders of biology has always been more like unfolding a story for me than tediously studying the subject. The summer before my junior year I took a Molecular Medicine course at Oxford. The teacher, a researcher, taught the class by explaining his many research projects. Each lecture was oddly reminiscent of kindergarten story time, where everyone gathers around the teacher to listen to that day's tale. Even without understanding every detail I found myself tuning in like an eager six year old.

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　　题目2：“文学是战胜死亡的最好方式。我曾提及我的父亲是一名演员。当他演出时，他就是世界上最快乐的人，但是演出结束后，他会变得悲伤苦恼。我希望他能够活在永恒的现在，因为剧场中的一切仅仅留存在人们的记忆中或照片上。而文学能够让你活在当下，并流芳百世。文学是一种告诉大家“我曾来过，此我所思，此我所得。谨此署名，谨此留名”的方式。”

　　——Ilán Stavans，西班牙语教授，安默斯特学院。取自Saideh Pakravan所著“放逐中的作家：Ilán Stavans访谈录”，1993年秋版《文学评论》。

　　此题属于选项A：请在300字内回答此引文，你不必对引文的来源进行研究、阅读或参考，我们希望你能给出原创性的个人回答，请记住你的文章应该是关于你自己的，而不仅仅是一篇议论文。

　　Prompt 2: “Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He’s the happiest man on earth when he’s performing, but when the show is over, he’s sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.”

　　Ilán Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: an interview with Ilán Stavans” by Saideh Pakravan for the Fall 1993 issue of The Literary Review. （NOTE: Option A:

　　Please respond to one of the following quotations in an essay of not more than 300 words. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.）

　　解析：申请者先要了解这句话的相关的历史背景和在那个历史环境下的意思，谈谈自己对....

　　范文：

　　书籍有着某种魔力，它们能够带着你去往另一个世界，那个世界没有限制，你的幻想在那里能够成型，只有你的想象力能够限制你。书籍使你在它们的世界中迷失自我，忘掉你所生活的世界中一切的困难和荒唐。在书籍中，读者的想象力和作者的文字发挥同样的作用，这就是书籍与众不同的地方。

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　　There is a certain kind of magic in books. They are able to transport you to a different world, a world with no limitations, a world where your fantasies take shape, and your imagination is the only thing holding you back. Books make you lose yourself in their world, and forget about all the difficulties and absurdities of the world in which you live. A book is 'run' by the reader's imagination as much as it is by the writer's words, and that is what makes books so special.

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