對于美國的準備參加SSAT考試的學生來說,由于他們處在英語的語境中,所以可以從身邊的閱讀中擴充SSAT考試的詞匯量。那么中國學生可以通過什么途徑來擴充自己的SSAT詞匯量呢?
中國學生擴充SSAT詞匯量的主要途徑包括:
·報紙
"New York Times" (www.nytimes.com),"USA Today"(www.usatoday.com),"Wall Street Journal"(online.wsj.com)
·雜志
"Times" ,"Newsweek" ,"National Geographic" ,"Popular Science"
·書
從有趣的閱讀中掌握新詞匯是一件快樂的事情。以下列出一些既可以讓考生愛不釋手,又可以從中學習新詞的內(nèi)容。遇見陌生單詞的時候,一定要記錄在卡片上,并且同時盡量根據(jù)下文來猜測其含義。
·小說
"Watership Down" (Richard Adams),"The Outsiders" (S. H. Hinton),"Great Expectations" (Charles Dickens),"Pride and Prejudice"(Jane Austen),"Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Bronte),"The Call of the Wild" (Jack London),"The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes"(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle),"To Kill a Mockingbird"(Harper Lee),"Animal Farm"(George Orwell),"The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn"( Mark Twain),"Things Fall Apart" (Chinua Achebe),"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou)
·科幻
"The Phantom Tollbooth" (Norton Juster),"The Hobbit" (J. R. R. Tolkien),"The Lord of the Rings" (J. R. R. Tolkien),"I, Robot" (Isaac Asimov),"Fahrenheit 451" (Ray Bradbury),"The War of the Worlds" (H. G. Wells),"Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley)
·非小說
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Frederick Douglass),"The Diary of a Young Girl" (Anne Frank),"The Weight Brothers" (Russell Freedman),"Twenty Years at Hull House" (Jane Addams)
一些專業(yè)的詞匯書籍和網(wǎng)上資源同樣是增加詞匯量的好工具。
·書
"Word Power Made Easy" (Norman Lewis),"Word Smart" and "Word Smart II" (Adam Robinson),"Word Smart Junior" and "Word Smart Junior II" (C. L. Brantley)
其中"Word Smart" and "Word Smart II"這兩本適用于8-12年級,"Word Smart Junior" and "Word Smart Junior II"這兩本適用于6-8年級。
以上方法好同時使用,既可以增加知識,又可以從不同的渠道來整合信息。如果從多個側(cè)面接觸到一個單詞,它就會變成你的日常知識。