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综合学术英语教程2答案Unit 1 Multidisciplinary Education

Keys to the Exercises

Approaching the Topic

1. 1) The aim of college education is to produce individuals who are well on their way to become

experts in their field of interest.

2) The growing importance of producing professionals who have the skills to work with people

from a diverse set of disciplines.

3) First, through an interdisciplinary approach; Second, through a multidisciplinary approach.

4) College education should produce individuals who may later become expert who are

interdisciplinary problem solvers.

2. 1) f2) d3) a4) e5) g6) m7) j8) k9) l10) i11) b12) h13)

c

4. (1) offered (2) stresses (3) ability (4) different (5) approach

(6) increasingly (7) graduates (8) enter (9) positions (10) Employment

6. 1) Multidisciplinary studies.

2) They both believe that current college education should lay emphasis on multidisciplinary

studies, which is a prerequisite to producing future expert who are interdisciplinary problem

solvers.

3) Open.

4) Open.

5) Open.

Reading about the Topic

3. 1) The students have brought to MIT their individual gifts, such as their own intellect, energy,

ideas, aspirations, distinctive life experience and point of view, etc.

2) They represent the geographic and symbolic center of MIT.

3) Names of intellectual giants.

4) Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, scientist, engineer, sculptor, inventor, city planner and

architect.

4.Set 1: 1) c2) e3) d4) h5) a6) g7) f8) b

Set 2: 1) e2) a3) h4) b5) c6) f7) d8) g

5.(b) Para. A (b) Para. B (a) Para. C (c) Para. D

(f) Para. E (e) Para. F (d) Para. G (g) Para. A

6. 1) Because for him, the simplicity he appreciated in nature became his ultimate standard in

design.

2) First was da Vinci’s complete disregard for the accepted boundaries between different f ields

of knowledge. The second facet of da Vinci’s character was his respect for and fascination

with nature. The third quality of da Vinci’s character was an enthusiastic demand for

hands-on making, designing, practicing and testing, and for solving problems in the real world.

3)“There is a good chance that you will never again live and work in a community with as many

different cultures and backgrounds as MIT.”(Para. F)

4) Because by doing so, the students can engage themselves in new intellectual adventures so as to

use their time at MIT to its fullest potential.

5) It means that “They took the initiative to search for the deepest answers, instead of sitting back

and letting things happen to them.”

7. Set 1: 1) h2) d3) a4) g5) f6) e7) b8) c

Set 2: 1) c2) g3) d4) a5) h6) f7) e8) b

8. 1) She wanted to describe for the new students three of his characteristics that particularly f it

with the value of MIT.

2) Because by doing so, the students can encounter the most stimulating minds and inspiring

role models, experience a life in a community with diversif ied cultures and backgrounds and

participate in various new intellectual adventures, so that they can get the most out of their

MIT education.