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) f 2) d 3) a 4) e 5) g 6) m 7) j 8) k 9) l 10) i 11) b 12) h 13) 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) c 2) e 3) d 4) h 5) a 6) g 7) f 8) b Set 2: 1) e 2) a 3) h 4) b 5) c 6) f 7) d 8) 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) h 2) d 3) a 4) g 5) f 6) e 7) b 8) c Set 2: 1) c 2) g 3) d 4) a 5) h 6) f 7) e 8) 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. Integrated Exercises
2. (1) ultimate (2) spirit (3) feed (4) approach (5) property (6) represent
(7) discipline (8) aspiration (9) inspire (10) perspective (11) inherit (12) generate 3.
The members of a word family inspire inspiration inspired inspiring generate generation generative generator aspiration aspire aspiring inherit inheritance inheritor inherited discipline disciplined disciplinary represent representation representative anatomist anatomy anatomical speculate speculation speculative speculator celebrate celebration celebrated celebrity intellect intellectual intelligence intelligent Chinese equivalent v.激励 n.灵感 adj.有灵感的 adj.鼓舞人心的 v.产生 n.一代 adj.有生产力的 n.发电机 n.渴望 v.渴望 adj.有抱负的 v.继承 n.继承物 n.继承人 adj.遗传的 n.纪律 adj.纪律严明的 adj.有关纪律的 v.代表 n.表现 n.代表者 n.解剖学家 n.解剖学 adj.解剖的 v.推测 n.推测 adj.推测的 n.思索者 v.庆祝 n.庆祝活动 adj.著名的 n.名人 n.智力 adj.智力的 n.智慧 adj.有才智的 collaborate collaboration collaborative collabotator v.合作 n.合作 adj.合作的 n.合作者 Integrate integrated integration
(1) inspiring (2) generation (3) collaborative (4) aspiring (5) Intelligent (6) inherit (7) celebrity (8) speculated (9) representative (10) anatomical 4. (1) D (2) A (3) C (4) B (5) D (6) A (7) B (8) C (9) A (10) C
5. (1) Many celebrated researchers around the world are collaborating to develop a new vaccine. (2) The scientists' experiment generated an unexpected outcome.
(3) If the systems are restructured, their effectiveness will be ultimately integrated into the global economy.
(4) The doctors speculate that he died of a stroke caused by a blow on the head. (5) The murder trial attracted considerable public attention.
(6) The aspiration for college education inspires people in remote areas to work hard. (7) He inherited his parents' fortune after their death. (8) He disregarded his father's advice and left college.
(9) In this address, he asked the youngsters, who embody the spirits of the nation, to join the campaign.
(10) The special diet incorporates many different fruits and vegetables. 7. (1) Whoever run the red light shows a complete disregard for public safety.
(2) Success, as he explained, was nothing more than a consistent pursuit of art and good luck. (3) The new product has benef ited from research work at the crossroads between biological and medical studies.
(4) It was amazing that his idea echoed well the great philosopher's belief, which he claimed not to have heard about before.
v.合并 adj.完整统一的 n.整合
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