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牛津大学官方面试样题

牛津大学公布了部分专业的面试样题，简直是太“贴心”了！

生物

1、Why do some habitats support higher biodiversity than others?（为什么有些栖息地比其他栖息地支持更高的生物多样性？）

2、Why do many animals have stripes?（为什么很多动物都有条纹？）

3、Here's a cactus. Tell me about it.（这是仙人掌。告诉我关于它的内容）

4、If you could save either the rainforests or the coral reefs, which would you choose?（如果你能拯救热带雨林或珊瑚礁，你会选择哪一个？）

5、Is it easier for organisms to live in the sea or on land?（生物是生活在海洋中还是生活在陆地上更容易？）

6、Why do lions have manes?（为什么狮子会有鬃毛？）

7、Ladybirds are red. So are strawberries. Why?（瓢虫是红色的。草莓也是如此。为什么）

8、Would it matter if tigers became extinct?（如果老虎灭绝了，会有关系吗？）

以上问题并不是简单的直接给出答案，需要详细阐述。比如第3个问题，牛津大学表示实际上在面试时不会这样表述这个问题——面试官会给学生一个装在花盆里的仙人掌或一张仙人掌表面结构的特写照片，并要求他们使用植物和照片尽可能详细地描述物体。

主要是对学生观察力以及对细节的关注度（无论是在大尺度上还是在微观尺度上）的考察。这意味着学生不需要使用关于仙人掌的记忆或知识，而是推断出所描述的形状、大小和结构的用途和功能。

例如，为什么有大而锋利的刺周围有很多非常小的毛发状刺？为什么它的主体上有小仙人掌发芽？面试官很可能会在一个答案之后提出另一个问题，例如：大刺是为了阻止仙人掌被吃掉，但被什么样的动物吃掉呢？例如：生活在沙漠等非常干燥的栖息地的植物和动物面临的问题是什么？

化学

How many different molecules can be made from six carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms?（6个碳原子和12个氢原子能产生多少个不同的分子？）

这个问题让考生有机会展示对化学的广泛理解，没有简单、直接的答案，主要考察申请者对不同种类分子的熟悉程度。面试官可能借这个问题将讨论引向一些陌生的概念，申请者以前可能没有听说过，面试官主要想看申请者接受新概念的速度有多快。

计算机科学 How do pirates divide their treasure?（海盗们该如何分配他们的宝藏呢？）

牛津大学的面试官表示这是一个标准的逻辑问题，我喜欢看学生如何掌握方向，以及他们是否可以将问题分解成更小的子集，并以算法的方式应用解决方案来解决复杂的概念。如果学生有任何问题，我希望他们提出问题，而不是静静地坐着。

数学

1、Imagine a ladder leaning against a vertical wall with its feet on the ground. The middle rung of the ladder has been painted a different colour on the side, so that we can see it when we look at the ladder from the side on. What shape does that middle rung trace out as the ladder falls to the floor?（想象一下，一个梯子靠在一堵垂直的墙上，梯脚放在地上。梯子的中间梯级在侧面被涂上了不同的颜色，这样当我们从侧面看梯子时就能看到它。当梯子掉到地板上时，中间的梯级是什么形状的？）

2、How many ways are there to cover a 2 x n rectangular grid with 2 x 1 tiles?(用2×1的瓷砖覆盖一个2×n的矩形网格，有几种方法？）

数学专业问题主要考察学生所掌握的专业知识，并且面试官表示希望看到学生思考、演算的过程。所以即使不能马上给出答案，认真思考并展示自己所学的内容也是面试官最想看到的。

PPE

1、'I agree that air transport contributes to harmful climate change. But whether or not I make a given plane journey, the plane will fly anyway. So there is no moral reason for me not to travel by plane.' Is this a convincing argument?（“我同意航空运输导致了有害的气候变化。但不管我是否进行特定的飞机旅行，飞机都会飞行。所以不能道德绑架我不坐飞机旅行。”这是一个令人信服的论据吗？）

2、Suppose that you could plug yourself into a machine for the rest of your life, which would give you all the experiences you find enjoyable and valuable. Once in the machine, you would not know that you are plugged in, and that these experiences are not real. Would you go into the machine? If so, why? If not, why not?（假设你可以在自己的余生中插入一个机器，这将给你所有你觉得愉快和有价值的体验。一旦进入机器，你就不会知道自己插上了电源，这些体验是不真实的。你愿意进入机器里吗？如果是，为什么？如果不，为什么？）

3、Are our deaths bad for us?（我们的死亡对我们有害吗？）

4、Why is income per head between 50 and 100 times larger in the United States than in countries such as Burundi and Malawi?（为什么美国的人均收入是布隆迪和马拉维等国家的50到100倍？）

5、When I was at school in the 1970s, there was talk of a pensions crisis that would one day hit. The talk persisted in the 1980s, and the 1990s – and then there was a pensions crisis, and little had been done politically to prepare us for it. Is there a fault with the British political system that means we can't sensibly address serious medium and long-term problems when they are identified?（20世纪70年代我在上学的时候，有人说有一天会发生养老金危机。这次谈话在20世纪80年代和90年代持续存在—然后出现了养老金危机，在政治上几乎没有为我们做好准备。英国的政治体系是否存在缺陷，导致我们无法在发现严重的中长期问题时明智地解决这些问题？）

6、I'm having trouble with the meaning of three words: Lie, Deceive, Mislead. They seem to mean something a bit similar, but not exactly the same. Help me to sort them out from each other.（我对这三个词的意思有问题：谎言，欺骗，误导。它们的意思似乎有点相似，但并不完全相同。帮我把它们彼此分类出来。）

申请牛津大学PPE专业的学生可以会发现，以上问题完全涵盖哲学、经济、政治，没有完全正确的标准答案，需要学生认真思考问题，并且给出详细、有说服力地回答，批判性思维很重要。

以上是机构节选的牛津大学部分专业的往年面试样题，你如果在面试中被问到这些问题，将会如何回答呢？

剑桥大学官方面试样题

与牛津大学不同，剑桥大学非常简单粗暴地直接甩出了超70个“General Interview Questions”：

1.Are there any questions that you would have liked us to have asked you?

2.Describe the sound of silence.

3.Do you have political views?

4.Do you think that you are smart?

5.Do you think that you can cope with the heavy workload here? What gives you this confidence?

6.How should we measure your success at the end of your time here?

7.How will your experiences from your sport benefit your future studies?

8.How would you describe this painting on the wall to your friend over the phone?

9.If you could change one thing on the planet now what would you change?

10.If you could have dinner with anybody from history, who would it be and why?

11.If you could have one superpower which one would it be and why?

12.If you had to choose to be a character from a book, who would you want to be?

13.In which circumstances would you toss a coin to make a decision?

14.Of which life achievement are you most proud?

15.Should you be allowed to use your smartphone during this interview?

16.Studying here is very intense, how will you manage your time to deal with all of the work?

17.Tell me about a recent magazine article that has interested you.

18.Tell me about a recent news article not related to your subject that has interested you.

19.Tell me about your life and how it is that you have come to sit in this chair?

20.What are you looking forward to the least at this college/university?

21.What are your long term plans for life?

22.What are your top three skills?

23.What did you read this morning? Yesterday evening?

24.What do you expect to get out of this degree?

25.What do you know about the course structure?

26.What do you think that you could personally contribute to college life?

27.What have you done in the past that makes you think that you are well equipped to deal with the stresses of university life here?

28.What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your life and how did you dealt with it?

29.What is your biggest strength?30.What is your biggest weakness?

31.What is your favourite colour?

32.What is your favourite number?

33.What makes you think that this university will be a good fit for you?

34.What makes you want to come to here given that you would almost certainly be the top student at any other university?

35.What was the most recent TV programme you watched?

36.Where do you see yourself in 10 years time? And in 20 years?37.Where would you like to travel to the future in a time machine?

38.Which colour best represents you?

39.Which extracurricular activities do you enjoy?

40.Which international newspapers or magazines do you read?

41.Which living person would you most like to meet and why?

42.Who has had the largest influence on your life?

43.Who is the most influential: Barack Obama, Angela Merkel or Kanye West?

44.Who was your best teacher? How have they influenced you?

45.Why are you sitting in this chair?

46.Why have you chosen to apply to study at this university?

47.Why should anybody bother with university?

48.Why would you like to come to this college?

49.If you had to bury a time capsule, what would you put in it?

50.What is a lie? How do I know what you just said isn’t a lie?

51.Define success in one sentence.

52.Does human behaviour change over time?

53.How does a cheetah move so fast?

54.How many letters does the Royal Mail deliver every day?

55.How many petrol stations are there in England?

56.How many piano tuners are there in England?

57.How many planes are flying over England right now?

58.How many tennis balls could fit into a Boeing 747 plane?

59.How many times in a day do the hands on a clock overlap?

60.How much should you charge to clean all of the windows in your home town?

61.If you were me, would you let yourself in?

62.Imagine that a developing country introduces a new population control policy to address a perceived gender imbalance. If a couple have a girl, they may have another child. If they have a boy, they cannot have any more children. What will be the new ratio of boys and girls?

63.Is there such a thing as beauty?

64.What do you think my favourite food is? Why do you say that?

65.What is more important: art or science?

66.What is the truth?

67.What shape is the sky?

68.Who am I?

69.Why are manhole covers round?

70.Why do things have names?

71.Would you ever go on a one way trip to Mars? Why?

72.You are given 7 identical balls and another ball that looks the same as the others but is heavier than them. You can use a balance only two times. How would you identify which is the heavy ball?

73.You are shrunk down so you’re the size of a matchstick and then put into a blender with metal blades. It is about to be turned on what do you do?

74.Why would you like to study this subject at university level?

75.With which famous person would you most like to be stuck on a desert island?

76.Would you choose a party over an essay?

以上这些问题涵盖了大部分专业，由于篇幅有限，这里就不跟大家一一解说了。准备面试的同学看到专业相关的问题，有回答思路吗？

牛剑面试注意事项

1、面试过程中仔细听面试官的提问或所说的内容，如果有没听清或者有不明白的地方可以与面试官沟通，请求重复问题或解释。

牛剑公布官方面试样题！看完觉得拿下offer更稳了！（图源：牛津大学、剑桥大学官网）