對(duì)于美國(guó)的準(zhǔn)備參加SSAT考試的學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō),由于他們處在英語(yǔ)的語(yǔ)境中,所以可以從身邊的閱讀中擴(kuò)充SSAT考試的詞匯量。那么中國(guó)學(xué)生可以通過(guò)什么途徑來(lái)擴(kuò)充自己的SSAT詞匯量呢?
中國(guó)學(xué)生擴(kuò)充SSAT詞匯量的主要途徑包括:
·報(bào)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(lè)的事情。以下列出一些既可以讓考生愛(ài)不釋手,又可以從中學(xué)習(xí)新詞的內(nèi)容。遇見(jiàn)陌生單詞的時(shí)候,一定要記錄在卡片上,并且同時(shí)盡量根據(jù)下文來(lái)猜測(cè)其含義。
·小說(shuō)
"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(shuō)
"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(jí),"Word Smart Junior" and "Word Smart Junior II"這兩本適用于6-8年級(jí)。
以上方法好同時(shí)使用,既可以增加知識(shí),又可以從不同的渠道來(lái)整合信息。如果從多個(gè)側(cè)面接觸到一個(gè)單詞,它就會(huì)變成你的日常知識(shí)。