申请美国大学的同学都知道，每年除了CA系统里的通用申请文书外，多数美国大学都会要求提交补充文书，补充文书中往往包含了丰富的信息，也是学校进一步了解申请者的途径。在众多美国大学中，芝加哥大学的文书题目一向以趣味性和独特另类著称，创意题目十分考验学生对于题目的理解力。下面一起来看看芝大2020-2021的文书题目。

　　2020-2021UChicago Supplement

　　Question 1 (Required)

　　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.

　　根据你现在对芝加哥大学的了解，芝加哥大学如何满足你对于学习，环境，以及未来的展望?请用具体事例来阐述你和芝加哥大学的联系。

　　Question 2: Extended Essay (Required; Choose one)

　　# Essay Option 1 #

　　Who does Sally sell her seashells to? How much wood can a woodchuck really chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pick a favorite tongue twister (either originally in English or translated from another language) and consider a resolution to its conundrum using the method of your choice. Math, philosophy, linguistics... it's all up to you (or your woodchuck).

　　莎莉将贝壳卖给谁?如果土拨鼠可以夹住木头，那么土拨鼠可以真正夹住多少木头?选择最喜欢的绕口令，并使用您选择的方法解决这个难题。数学，哲学，语言学...一切都取决于你(或你的土拨鼠)。

　　—Inspired by Blessing Nnate, Class of 2024

　　# Essay Option 2 #

　　What can actually be divided by zero?

　　什么可以被0整除?

　　—Inspired by Mai Vu, Class of 2024

　　# Essay Option 3 #

　　The seven liberal arts in antiquity consisted of the Quadrivium — astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and music — and the Trivium — rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Describe your own take on the Quadrivium or the Trivium. What do you think is essential for everyone to know?

　　古代的七门人文学科包括四门：天文学，数学，几何学和音乐，以及三门：修辞学，语法和逻辑学。描述您对四学科或三学科的看法。你认为每个人都必须知道什么?

　　—Inspired by Peter Wang, Class of 2022

　　# Essay Option 4 #

　　Subway maps, evolutionary trees, Lewis diagrams. Each of these schematics tells the relationships and stories of their component parts. Reimagine a map, diagram, or chart. If your work is largely or exclusively visual, please include a cartographer's key of at least 300 words to help us best understand your creation.

　　地铁图，进化树，刘易斯图。这些示意图中的每一个都讲述了其组成部分的关系和故事。如果您的作品是视觉作品，请重新构思一个地图或者图表，请提供至少300个单词的解释，以帮助我们更好地了解你的创作。

　　—Inspired by Maximilian Site, Class of 2020

　　# Essay Option 5 #

　　"Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" - Eleanor Roosevelt. Misattribute a famous quote and explore the implications of doing so.

　　“你觉得幸运吗?”怎样，感觉怎样，小子?”——Eleanor Roosevelt，错误地引用一句名言，并探究这样做的含义。

　　—Inspired by Chris Davey, AB’13

　　# Essay Option 6 #

　　Engineer George de Mestral got frustrated with burrs stuck to his dog’s fur and applied the same mechanic to create Velcro. Scientist Percy Lebaron Spencer found a melted chocolate bar in his magnetron lab and discovered microwave cooking. Dye-works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly found his tablecloth clean after a kerosene lamp was knocked over on it, consequently shaping the future of dry cleaning. Describe a creative or interesting solution, and then find the problem that it solves.

　　工程师乔治·德·梅斯特拉(George de Mestral)对狗的皮毛上粘有毛刺而感到沮丧，他用类似的原理技术制作了魔术贴。科学家珀西·勒巴伦·斯宾塞(Percy Lebaron Spencer)在他的磁控管实验室中发现了一块融化的巧克力棒，并发现了微波烹饪方法。染厂的老板让·巴蒂斯特·乔利(Jean Baptiste Jolly)在用煤油灯敲打后发现桌布很干净，因此塑造了干洗的未来。描述一个创造性的或有趣的解决方案，并且它可以解决什么问题。

　　—Inspired by Steve Berkowitz, AB’19, and Neeharika Venuturupalli, Class of 2024

　　# Essay Option 7 #

　　In the spirit of adventurous inquiry (and with the encouragement of one of our current students!) 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!

　　本着冒险的精神(在我们现任学生的鼓励下)，选择我们过去的提示之一(或提出您自己的问题)。具有原创性，创造力，发人深省。发挥出作家，思想家，远见卓识，社会评论家，贤哲，世界公民或芝加哥大学未来公民的最佳品质;冒点险，玩得开心。

　　以上内容介绍了芝加哥大学2020-21最新补充文书题目，芝加哥大学尤其看重文书部分，通过文书来看学生是什么样子，学生是否有创造力，是否有坚强的个性，是否有敏锐的辨别能力。他们并不苛求学生能在每个方面都做到最好，但要有自己的优势，招生官们理想的候选人是能根据自己的兴趣参与活动不断发展和挖掘自己的长处。