留学文书是留学申请最重要的申请材料之一，很多时候都对申请成功与否起着至关重要的作用。然而，对于想去美国留学的学生来说，没有标准答案的开放式的文书写作题目会发现自己无从下笔。尤其是有些美国大学的文书题目十分另类，可能连文章的主旨都难以把握。下面小编就带大家来领略一下美国著名大学的那些奇葩文书题目。

　　奇葩指数5

　　要谈奇葩的文书主题，夺魁的不是芝加哥大学很多人一定会跟我急!应了中国网络上最火的流行语，读完芝加哥大学文书主题，我的小伙伴们惊呼：不明觉厉!各位读者好好感受下吧：

　　U Chicago 芝加哥大学

　　1.Winston Churchill believed "a joke isa very serious thing." From Off-Off Campus’s improvisations to the ShadyDealer humor magazine to the renowned Latke-Hamantash debate, we take humorvery seriously here at The University of Chicago (and we have since 1959, whenour alums helped found the renowned comedy theater The Second City). Tell usyour favorite joke and try to explain the joke without ruining it. -ChelseaFine, Class of 2016

　　2.In a famous quote by José Ortega y Gasset,the Spanish philosopher proclaims, "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia"(1914). José Quintans, master of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division atthe University of Chicago, sees it another way: "Yo soy yo y mimicrobioma" (2012). You are you and your..? -Maria Viteri, Class of 2016

　　3.This is what history consists of. It's thesum total of all the things they aren't telling us.-- Don DeLillo, Libra. Whatis history, who are “they,” and what aren’t they telling us? -Amy Estersohn,Class of 2010

　　4.The mantis shrimp can perceive bothpolarized light and multispectral images; they have the most complex eyes inthe animal kingdom. Human eyes have color receptors for three colors (red,green, and blue); the mantis shrimp has receptors for sixteen types of color,enabling them to see a spectrum far beyond the capacity of the human brain.Seriously, how cool is the mantis shrimp: mantisshrimp.uchicago.edu What mightthey be able to see that we cannot? What are we missing? -Tess Moran, Classof

　　5.How are apples and oranges supposed to becompared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics,chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy. -Florence Chan, Class of 2015

　　6.In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, posea question of your own. If your prompt is original and thoughtful, then youshould have little trouble writing a great essay. Draw on your best qualitiesas a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, orfuture citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun。

　　奇葩指数4.0

　　北卡罗莱那大学倾向于用一些小问题来折磨你，比如你希望在彩虹之后发现什么?如果你能穿越到任何时空，你会去哪儿为什么?你的主题曲是什么?切片面包之后的最佳事物是什么?你最珍贵的财产是啥?你最希望拥有的超能力是什么?你想发明什么小玩意?

　　UNC 北卡罗来纳大学

　　Most of us have one or more personality quirks. Explainone ofyours and what it says about you. What do you hope to find over therainbow?Why do you do what you do?If you could travel anywhere in time orspace, either real orimagined, where would you go and why?Tell us about a timewhen your curiosity led you someplace youweren’t expecting to go.My themesong:Best thing since sliced bread:My most treasured possession:Super power I’dmost like to have:Gadget that needs inventing:Biggest little worry:

　　相比起UNC的俏皮灵动，波士顿学院的文书题目则显得深沉严肃而又有思考的趣味。第一题引用了BC的毕业典礼演讲，“事实往往缺少灵魂而显得不 够完整，在理解历史时有人拥有了所有的数据却不得要领，就如钢琴初学者奏出了所有音符却听不到音乐”，请告诉我们你自己是否有这样的经历。

　　Boston College 波士顿学院

　　From David McCullough's recent commencement address atBC:“Facts alone are never enough. Facts rarely if ever have any soul.In writingor trying to understand history one may have all mannerof 'data,' and miss thepoint. One can have all the facts and missthe truth. It can be like the oldpiano teacher's lament to herstudent, 'I hear all the notes, but I hear nomusic。” Tell us abouta time you had all of the factsbut missed the meaning.In his novel, Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCannwrites:“We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for thefirsttime, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will neverhear it again. Wereturn to the moment to experience it, I suppose,but we can never really findit, only its memory, the faintestimprint of what it really was, what it meant。” Tell us aboutsomething you heard or experienced for the first timeand how theyears since have affected your perception of t