How to study English for the postgraduate entrance examination?

Review of English for the Postgraduate Entrance Examination

English is a basic subject. If your undergraduate study status is very good, the review for the Postgraduate Entrance Examination will be relatively easy; if the undergraduate foundation is not solid enough, CET-4 and CET-6 If you just barely pass, you will have to undergo a long and arduous review.

■Strengthen vocabulary. The TEOFL and GRE exams only require you to know the rough spelling and meaning of the word, but the postgraduate entrance examination requires you to remember the detailed meaning and usage, because the most common tests are word meaning analysis and collocation. You must fully master about 5,500 vocabulary words in the syllabus, including root words, affixes, synonym analysis, synonym comparison, general usage, fixed collocations, etc. In addition to regular practice exercises, extensive reading is also a good way to review vocabulary. Of course, you must choose appropriate reading materials.

■Strengthen complex, long and difficult sentences. The understanding of sentences is related to almost all question types. The accuracy and speed of cloze and reading comprehension are directly based on the understanding of sentences. The understanding of many chapters is actually stuck on one or two complex sentences. Needless to say, the English-Chinese translation test is all about long and difficult sentences. Accurate understanding of sentences; writing is nothing more than writing sentences one by one according to the simplest logic and meaning. If you can write some correct and beautiful long and complex sentences, your score will immediately go up to a higher level. There are no tricks to strengthen long and complex sentences, just read more and think more.

■Develop a sense of language. The biggest difference between English and politics and mathematics is that it is a language with a certain degree of ambiguity, which is called language sense in linguistics. "Feeling" is irrational. The cultivation of language sense requires a language environment. Chinese students have made little progress in learning English for more than ten years, but once they go abroad, they immediately improve by leaps and bounds. Why? Because there is a locale. Of course it is impossible for us to travel abroad for the postgraduate entrance examination, but we can definitely work hard to create such an environment. For example, greet your postgraduate entrance examination comrades in English and have a few simple chats (make it clear in advance that no one will laugh at anyone); although there is no listening test, you can also listen to English tapes; read original books and try not to read subtitles when watching original VCDs. Read more excellent English materials. It is recommended to read "English World". For students with a large vocabulary, read "TIME", "Newsweek" and the like. It may be a headache at first, but it is an all-round training on grammar, vocabulary and reading. Once it becomes smooth, you can deal with it later. Taking the postgraduate entrance examination is a piece of cake.

■Understand the plateau effect and persevere. English review will have a typical "platform" effect: after reviewing to a certain level, no matter how you memorize words or do questions, your performance will not improve significantly. At this time, you must stay calm and persist for a while, and you will be able to reach a new level, and generally you will not fall back after you go up.