2017安默斯特学院文书题：对世界运作原理的洞悉

1、「严密的推理在数学中是至关重要的，近来洞察力也会扮演重要的辅助角色。但在自然科学中，我得承认这两个美德的次序要颠倒过来。严密当然还是很重要的。但最重要的价值在于洞察力——对世界运作原理的洞悉。这或许是因为科学里有另一个保证正确性的因素的缘故，即由观察和实验得来的经验证据。」

—坎南贾甘纳坦，阿默斯特学院物理学教授 （选项A请用短文的形式回应下面的一段引文。研究、阅读或引用它们的出处是不必要的。我们希望看到对这些引文的原创的、个性化的回应。请记住你的短文的性质应该是带有你个性的，而不单纯是一篇议论文。）

字数限制：五选一，这是第一题，300词。

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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2、「文学是胜过死亡的最好方式。我的父亲，正如我之前说的，是个演员。当他表演时他是世上最高兴的人，但演出结束后，他却充满了忧愁烦恼。我希望他能活在永恒的当下，因为对于演艺事业，一切还保留在回忆录和照片中。另一方面，文学同样让你活在当下并留在未来的万神殿中。文学是表达「我在这儿、这是我所想的、这是我所观察到的、这是我的特质、这是我的名字」的一种途径。」

—伊兰斯塔，阿默斯特学院西班牙语教授。引自《被流放的作家：访伊兰斯塔》，赛德帕卡梵著，最初发表在《文艺评论》的1993年秋季卷上 （选项A请用短文的形式回应下面的一段引文。研究、阅读或引用它们的出处是不必要的。我们希望看到对这些引文的原创的、个性化的回应。请记住你的短文的性质应该是带有你个性的，而不单纯是一篇议论文。）

字数限制：五选一，这是第二题，300词。

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.”

Iln Stavans, professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: an interview with Iln 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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