时间： 2014/10/15
地点： 美国 南加州
考场状况： Prometric 电脑考场
Issue 题号： 116
"To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest
ethical and moral standards."
Argument 题号： 122
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1. 乙醇汽油
出现在在吴中东 1993 年的题目、高志威 37 or 40 套高频机经的第一篇
2. Volcanic hotspots, Morgan's hypothesis that hotspots are fixed
source - https://community.dur.ac.uk/g.r.foulger/Offprints/Astron-Geo.pdf
An important contribution to this debate came hot on the heels of the newly
accepted plate tectonic theory. Morgan (1971) suggested that “hotspots”,
i.e. areas of exceptionally intense volcanism such as Hawaii, Yellowstone and
Iceland, are fuelled by plumes of buoyant, hot material that arise in the
deep mantle and punch through the mobile, convecting, shallow mantle to reach
the surface (figure 1). This theory was developed in order to explain the
time-progressive volcanic trails associated with some hotspots, and their
apparent fixity relative to one another. If the sources of the volcanism are
rooted in a relatively immobile deep mantle, they will not move relative to
one another and the plates at the surface will drift passively above them,
bearing away trails of volcanism.
火山、热点
3. Collision theory and implication of this model could explain the origin of
moon.
星球碰撞理论
- 两颗差不多的星球互撞可能会融合在一起或者是产生出新的星球
- 月球可能从地球产生的
- 因为 1.月球密度跟地球的 mantle (外层) 类似
- 有科学家怀疑是因为地球转太快才把月球甩出去
- 但是证据不够
- 所以星球碰撞的机会比较高
- 而且因为撞了之后 从地球跑出去的物质都是蒸气 很容易蒸发，
所以月球找不到特定的物质
- 碰撞理论也有可能发生在水星跟金星
- see Giant Impactor Hypothesis on wiki
- more background information on this NASA for child site
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html
4. 美国建国初期对女性的教育
- American education for women in the early days
- conventional idea is that society forbade women from being well-spoken
- 但是其实 1780 - 1800, standard education values public speaking among women
- this education is effective,
even leading to political activism among young women
- 好景不长 the attitudes change in 1815
5. Namier's contribution to political history
- his method was innovative and very meticulous
- focus on historical accuracy and direct evidence
- followed the habit of classic and medieval history scholars
TC/SE 填空
This report is admittedly _______: it is intended to suggest new lines of
research, rather than deal with the subject in a ______ manner.
Blank 1 flippant sketchy exculpatory
blank 2 thorough cavalier
Answer - 应该是 sketchy and cavalier
数学没什么印象