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【題目】

Learning vocabulary doesn’t have to be boring

Many students have problems with vocabulary when preparing for tests like the SATs. Last week, TEENS offered advice on how to memorize new words. If you’re now familiar with those methods, why not try moving on to the next stage by using the following tips to build up your English vocabulary.

Repeated encounters (反復(fù)遇見(jiàn))

The usual way of “memorizing” new material is through repeating it while it’s still in your mind. However, simply repeating a word seems to have little long-term effect.

But one kind of repetition is effective: repetition of encounters with a word. Words stand a good chance of being remembered if they’ve been met at least seven times in your reading, at intervals (相隔一段時(shí)間). So, read English magazines, newspapers, and websites regularly.

Spacing and review

It’s better to distribute (分配) memory work over a period of time rather than do it in a single session (一段時(shí)間). This is known as the “principle of distributed practice”, where new vocabulary introduced in one lesson is reviewed in the next, and then in later lessons.

Use it or lose it

Putting words to use in interesting ways helps add them to your long-term memory. In a study of vocabulary learning, students who made up their own sentences with new words and read them aloud remembered them better than those who learned the words separately and silently. Best of all, students were given the task of silently imagining a picture in their minds to go with a new word. So it might help if learners link words with a mental image.

Mix it up

Let’s face it — learning words can be really boring, but it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to the Internet, there are more interesting ways to get the job done. Try watching videos from English-speaking social media celebrities and copying the way they speak. You could even upload your own videos and try becoming a star yourself.

【1】According to the passage, a good way of memorizing new words is ________.

A. simply repeating them

B. learning the words silently

C. reviewing them in one lesson

D. reading English magazines regularly

【2】To make learning words more interesting, we can ________.

A. try to become a famous star

B. read new words on websites

C. make and upload our own English videos

D. draw a picture on the paper with a new word

【3】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Where to use new words. B. How to memorize new words.

C. When to learn new words. D. What to write with new words.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【解析】

本文通過(guò)許多學(xué)生在準(zhǔn)備SAT考試時(shí)都會(huì)遇到詞匯問(wèn)題這一現(xiàn)象，簡(jiǎn)單介紹了幾條增長(zhǎng)詞匯量的方法。

【1】句意：根據(jù)這篇文章，記憶新單詞的好方法是有規(guī)律地閱讀英文雜志。原文中“So, read English magazines, newspapers, and websites regularly.”（所以，要定期閱讀英文雜志，報(bào)紙和網(wǎng)站。）這是一種記單詞的好辦法（Repeated encounters (反復(fù)遇見(jiàn))）。故選D。

【2】句意：為了讓學(xué)習(xí)單詞變得更有趣，我們可以制作并且上傳我們自己的英語(yǔ)錄像。原文“try watching videos from English-speaking social media celebrities and copying the way they speak. You could even upload your own videos and try becoming a star yourself.”（嘗試觀看英語(yǔ)社交媒體名人的視頻并復(fù)制該視頻中他們說(shuō)話的方式。您甚至可以上傳自己的視頻并嘗試自己成為明星。）故選C。

【3】句意：這篇文章主要討論的是什么？如何記憶新單詞。文章開(kāi)頭部分“If you’re now familiar with those methods, why not try moving on to the next stage by using the following tips to build up your English vocabulary.”（如果您現(xiàn)在熟悉這些方法，那么為什么不嘗試通過(guò)使用以下小技巧來(lái)提高您的英語(yǔ)詞匯量進(jìn)入下一個(gè)階段。），文章后半部分便是介紹了這幾個(gè)小貼士。所以文章的主題就是如何記憶新單詞。故選B。