词汇题主要测试应试者对大纲词汇和短语的词义、用法和搭配的辨认和运用能力。测试的重点主要有：
一、动词短语和介词短语的搭配和辨义
二、近义词辨异
三、形近词辨义
四、单词辨义
五、固定搭配关系：如动词和名词、名词与形容词、动词、名词、形容词与介词或副词之间的搭配。
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1.Example
a.Select any of these periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest or The New Yorker.
b.She is studying glaucoma and other disease of the eye.
2.Comparison
a.The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with wind like feathers.
3.Contrast
a.Most of us agreed, however, Bill dissented.
b.Peter was not fugal since he spent money so freely.
4.Definition
a.The harbor is protected by a jetty—a wall built out into the water.
b.Jane is indecisive, that is , she can’t make up her mind.
5.Restatement
a.He had a wan look. He was so pale and weak that we thought he was ill.
b.Carbon monoxide is a noxious gas which can cause death.
c.I am a resolute man. Once I set up a goal, I won’t give up easily.
6.General Knowledge
a.The door was so low that I hit my head on the lintel.
b.“We have found that no one in the freshmen class can add, multiply, subtract or divide simple sums… Therefore we are starting up a special remedial arithmetic course…”
词汇题主要测试应试者对大纲词汇和短语的词义、用法和搭配的辨认和运用能力。测试的重点主要有：
一、动词短语和介词短语的搭配和辨义
二、近义词辨异
三、形近词辨义
四、单词辨义
五、固定搭配关系：如动词和名词、名词与形容词、动词、名词、形容词与介词或副词之间的搭配。
Find out word meanings ontext clues
1.Example
a.Select any of these periodicals: Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest or The New Yorker.
b.She is studying glaucoma and other disease of the eye.
2.Comparison
a.The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with wind like feathers.
3.Contrast
a.Most of us agreed, however, Bill dissented.
b.Peter was not fugal since he spent money so freely.
4.Definition
a.The harbor is protected by a jetty—a wall built out into the water.
b.Jane is indecisive, that is , she can’t make up her mind.
5.Restatement
a.He had a wan look. He was so pale and weak that we thought he was ill.
b.Carbon monoxide is a noxious gas which can cause death.
c.I am a resolute man. Once I set up a goal, I won’t give up easily.
6.General Knowledge
a.The door was so low that I hit my head on the lintel.
b.“We have found that no one in the freshmen class can add, multiply, subtract or divide simple sums… Therefore we are starting up a special remedial arithmetic course…”
7.Related Information
a.Just before the exam Carl’s hands shook and sweated so much that he could not hold a pen. His heart beat fast and his stomach ached, even though he knew the subject very well. He had a strange phobia about taking tests.
1.The barren land could produce little food.
sterile, unfertile
fertile
2.The room was dark and I bumped my head against the door.
Collide, hit
3.My wife’s been exerting a lot of pressure on me to change my job.
Put forth, use, utilize
4.The king’s younger brother took part in the intrigue to make himself king.
conspiracy
5.They had to postpone their trip because of rain.
Delay, put off, defer
均含“推迟”、“延期”、“延缓”的意思。
delay 指“暂时阻挠或阻挡, 稍后可再继续进行”, 如: The steamer was delayed by bad weather.
defer指“决定延期至适当时期, 而且有意向将来一定继续作”, 如: Payment has been deferred until next week.
postpone是正式用语, 语义较强, 指“有意识地延至将来某一特定时间”, 在多数情况下, 后面说明改在何时进行, 如: The meeting has been postponed to Friday.
put off与postpone大致同义, 但较通俗口语化, 如: Let's put this off till some other time.
