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If you could travel back in time to meet a famous person from history, what person would you like to meet? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
If I could travel back in time to meet a famous person, I would most like to meet and speak with Siddhartha Gautama: The Buddha. If by "enlightenment" one means a complete understanding of the universe, then Buddha, having achieved "enlightenment", would be fully capable of answering all questions relating to the origins, condition, and destiny of the universe.
Perhaps the first thing I would like to discuss, upon meeting Buddha, would be the events surrounding the birth of the universe. How and why did the universe come into being? Are contemporary physicists correct in assuming that all matter emerged spontaneously from a single point beyond time and space? The Big Bang! And does this theory compliment or contradict the theories of other great religious thinkers who claimed that all life emerged from a primordial source.
Following our discussion of the origins of the universe, I would like to ask Buddha a number of questions concerning the "human condition." Why are Mankind, the planet Earth and the universe structured the way they are? What is the purpose of life? Why does existence contain such drastic opposites: love and hate, good and evil, joy and suffering?
Having gained an understanding of both the universe and the human condition, I would then like to move on to a discussion of Mankind's destiny. What is then ultimate fate of the universe, and in turn, life? Is it true, as some great thinkers have suggested, that the universe and everything in it return to the void from which it emerged? And what about God? Is God a personal entity, as some religions claim? Or is God the impersonal source of all that exist? The impersonal source of the void!
Throughout history, intelligent men and women have thought deeply about God, fate, destiny, and the origins of the universe. The opportunity to have these questions answered by one who lived in the not too distant past, would truly be a remarkable experience.
满分要素剖析：
一、 语言表达
本文语言地道而高深，特别是涉及到关于宇宙起源理论，哲学基本问题的冷门词汇，展现了作者丰富的词汇量，同时也侧面体现了其思想的深刻性。在上下文连接上，作者十分注意表达的灵活变化，尽管结构相似，但是不同的表达也让文章摆脱了僵硬的印象。
1. If by "enlightenment" one means a complete understanding of the universe, then Buddha, having achieved "enlightenment", would be fully capable of answering all questions relating to the origins, condition, and destiny of the universe.
首先关键字是enlightenment，表示启蒙。Be capable of doing表示有能力做。Relate to有关于，和…有关。
2. The Big Bang! And does this theory compliment or contradict the theories of other great religious thinkers who claimed that all life emerged from a primordial source.
The big bang theory宇宙大爆炸理论。Compliment表示恭维，称赞，即赞同，contradict表示矛盾，抵触，两者互为反义词。Emerge from从…出现。Primordial表示原始的，意思和original相近。
3. Following our discussion of the origins of the universe, I would like to ask Buddha a number of questions concerning the "human condition."本句前半段承接上文，用了following开头的表达，在另外两个段落中，作者还用了相似内容结构的不同语言表达，非常值得大家学习。Concern表示关于，还有关心，关注的意思。
二、 逻辑结构
文章开门见山，先根据题目要求选定见面对象，然后概述了选择菩萨的理由。接下来分三个段落提出了三个不同方面的问题来具体说明为什么想和菩萨见面——弄清楚关于宇宙，关于人类，以及关于命运的一系列基本问题。最后总结全文，这些问题都是古往今来智者们最关心的基本问题，而如果能够有机会向菩萨提问，将是很有意义的一次经验。
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