(超详细答案)综合学术英语教程2 答案

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.