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牛津每年有公布面试样题以及供参考的____答题思路，这一举措是为了帮助考生进入牛津，这所世界顶尖_的学府的考生们度过备考难关__准备的。
牛津大学招生部主任建议考生们不要害怕在一开始给出直白坦率 __ 的回答。她说：“通常最好的做法是，最开始给出一些浅显的点评___作为回答，然后在此基础上____深入讨论下去
锡安·普利为历史系考生提供了建议：“考生也许可以在开场时 ____ 说他们正在研究都铎时期的英格兰，历史学家对穷人的生活了解不多，这是因为穷人低下的读写能力_____
之后，这就需要考生打开脑洞__，找出其他可选_的信息源（也要考虑它们的缺陷__），比如刑事法庭记录__，在这样的记录中，不会写字的人被要求提供口头证词 ___ 作为证据__。”
“考生们也许应该考虑，随着时间的推移，权力结构发生了怎样的变化_；或者决定哪些信息能够被记录并保存在档案中的社会规范____又发生了什么变化。这类谈话是没有考生能够提前__预测____的。”
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day22 What does a rock look like? Oxford reveals sample interview questions
一块石头长什么样？牛津公布面试样题
How you listen to music, what a rock looks like, and what historians cannot know about the past are among this year’s list of sample interview questions published by Oxford University.
The annual release of interview questions and suggested ways of answering them are designed to prepare aspiring students for the ordeal of trying to get into one of the world’s most elite institutions.
Oxford’s director of admissions, Samina Khan, advises candidates not to be afraid to give plain answers at first. She said: “It is often best to start responding by making very obvious observations and building up discussion from there—solving the problem quickly is less important than showing how you use information and analysis to get there.”
Siân Pooley, from Magdalen College, advised history candidates how to explain what they cannot find out about the past. “A candidate might start off by saying that they had been studying Tudor England and historians don’t know much about the lives of the poor because they were less likely to be able to write,” she said.
“Given these lower levels of literacy, we could then talk about what sources historians can use to learn about the lives of the majority of the population in 16th-century England. This would require the candidate to think creatively about alternative sources (and their drawbacks), such as, for instance, criminal court records in which people who could not write were required to give oral testimony as witnesses.
“They might want to think about how structures of power have altered over time or about how social norms for what can be recorded and kept in archives have changed. This is the sort of conversation that no candidate could predict in advance.”