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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.
3) The three of Da Vinci’s characteristics will be the heritage of MIT to be inherited by the
students. She hoped that the new students would follow Da Vinci as well as a great many extraordinary MIT teachers as their role models to use their time to its fullest potential.
4) Multidisciplinary thinking is a mode of thinking that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries in
order to gain new ideas and fresh perspectives.
9. 1) Human ingenuity will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more
to the purpose than Nature does. (Para. A)
2) For Da Vinci, the simplicity he appreciated in Nature became his ultimate standard in design.
(Para. B)
3) Be as determined in your curiosity as Leonardo da Vinci —and you will use your time at
MIT to its fullest potential. (Para. F)
4) MIT is a place of practical optimism and of passionate engagement with the most important
problems of the world. (Para. G)
5) I had long since observed that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
happen to them. (Para. H)
10. Many scientists and engineers at MIT pursue simplicity in their design and development of
technologies.
Exploring the Topic
4. 1) It is believed that a multidisciplinary approach to scientific education is of vital importance.
2) Second, a multidisciplinary emphasis is believed to be a prerequisite to training individuals.
3) It cannot be denied that these f irms are participating in turning out the future thinkers.
4) How about examining our problems about science and technology from a liberal arts
perspective.
5) Surprisingly, however, our universities and colleges fail to switch from the conventional
divisions and departmental sections to daily extracurricular multidisciplinary work.
5. Reading 1 begins with a contrast —“College education has always had the responsibility to ... However, ... we also see the growing importance of producing ...”. The introduction of Reading 2 is informative as well as interesting, which arouses the readers’interest to go on reading.