最新！芝大公布2026 Fall文书题目！美本圈最“烧脑”文书上新，要点和雷点有这些……

 How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago.

根据你目前的了解，芝加哥大学是如何满足你对特定学习方式、社群氛围以及未来发展的渴望的？

请结合你自身的期望进行具体阐述，并说明这些期望与芝加哥大学的契合之处。

选择1

In an ideal world where inter-species telepathic communication exists, which species would you choose to have a conversation with, and what would you want to learn from them? Would you ask beavers for architectural advice? Octopuses about cognition? Pigeons about navigation? Ants about governance? Make your case—both for the species and the question.

在一个存在跨物种心灵感应的理想世界中，你会选择和哪种生物交谈，又想从它们那里学到什么？是向河狸请教建筑设计？向章鱼探究认知能力？向鸽子学习导航技巧？还是向蚂蚁了解治理之道？请阐述你的理由——包括所选物种和具体问题。

选择2

 If you could uninvent one thing, what would it be — and what would unravel as a result?

如果能让一项发明从未存在过，你会选什么？这又会引发怎样的连锁反应？

选择3

 "Left" can mean remaining or departed. "Dust" can mean to add fine particles or to remove them. "Fast" can mean moving quickly or fixed firmly in place. 

These contronyms—words that are their own antonyms—somehow hold opposing meanings in perfect tension. 

Explore a contronym: a role, identity, or experience in your life that has contained its own opposite.

‘Left’ 既可以指‘剩余’，也可以指‘离去’；‘Dust’ 既可以表示‘撒上细尘’，也可以表示‘拂去灰尘’；‘Fast’ 既能形容‘快速移动’，也能形容‘牢牢固定’。

这些反义词——即自身就包含相反含义的词——奇妙地将对立的含义统一于一身。

请探索你生活中的一个‘反义词’：一个角色、身份或经历，它本身便蕴含着自身的对立面。

选择4

 The penny is on its way out—too small to matter, too costly to keep. But not everything small should disappear. What’s one object the world is phasing out that you think we can’t afford to lose, and why?

硬币正遭到逐步淘汰——面值小得微不足道，保管又太费劲。但并非所有微小的东西都该消失。在正面临淘汰的物件里，有哪一样是你认为我们绝对不能失去的？为什么？

选择5

From Michelin Tires creating the Michelin Guide, to the audio equipment company Audio-Technica becoming one of the world’s largest manufacturers of sushi robots, brand identity can turn out to be a lot more flexible than we think. 

Choose an existing brand, company, or institution and propose an unexpected but strangely logical new product or service for them to launch. 

Why is this unlikely extension exactly what the world (or the brand) needs right now?

从米其林轮胎创立米其林指南，到音频设备公司森海塞尔成为全球最大的寿司机器人制造商之一，品牌认同最终可能比我们想象的要灵活得多。

选择一个现有的品牌、公司或机构，为其提议一个出乎意料但又似乎合乎逻辑的新产品或服务。为什么这个天马行空的延伸恰恰是当前世界（或该品牌）所需要的？

选择6

Statistically speaking, ice cream doesn’t cause shark attacks, pet spending doesn’t drive the number of lawyers in California, and margarine consumption isn’t responsible for Maine’s divorce rate—at least, not according to conventional wisdom. 

But what if the statisticians got it wrong? Choose your favorite spurious correlation and make the case for why it might actually reveal a deeper, causative truth.

从统计学角度来看，冰淇淋不会引发鲨鱼袭击，宠物消费不会推动加利福尼亚州律师数量的增长，人造黄油消耗也不会影响缅因州的离婚率——至少根据传统观念是这样。

但如果统计学家搞错了呢？选择你最喜欢的“伪性相关”问题，并阐述为什么它实际上可能揭示了一个更深层次的因果关系。

选择7

And, as always… the classic choose your own adventure option! In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). Be original, creative, thought provoking. 

Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun!

最后，依然是经典的“选择你自己的冒险”命题！

本着冒险探究的精神，选择我们过去的一个文书题目（或者创建你自己的问题）。要求原创、有创意、引人深思。

发挥你作为作家、思考者、远见者、社会评论家、智者、世界公民，或芝加哥大学未来公民的最佳品质；稍微冒险一下，享受乐趣吧！

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