很多去英国留学的学生,在准备自己的申请书时,也要不断提升自己的英语能力,看英文原著无疑是最佳选择,那么如何选择合适自己英语水平的英文小说呢?跟着出国留学网小编来看看吧!欢迎阅读。
如何选择合适自己的英文原版书籍
第一步、测试基础词汇量
不管是说自己英语水平多差的人,经过了从小学到大学长达十多年的英语学习,最基础的词汇量一定是有的。测试自己的基础词汇量,指的就是阅读词汇量,简单来说,就是“我认识”“我大概知道它的意思”的单词。
这一步推荐随便百度一些测量单词量的网站(扇贝、沪江英语等等都有,不过它们的上限基本都不会超过三万= =),不要欺骗自己。
测试结果3000以上的,开始阅读一些原版书就问题不大了。基本上可以分为:
3000-8000 高中,四级水平
8000-12000 六级、考研水平
12000-18000 雅思,托福水平
18000+ 英专,GRE水平
这个分类只是最简单粗暴的一个分法。那么很多人就问了,测出来的单词量明明也达到了10000+,怎么就还是看不懂雅思阅读呢?这就需要第二步啦~
第二步、阅读水平衡量
这个步骤其实是很多人无视的一步,当你想当然地以为自己过了六级,或者雅思阅读也考了8之类,看个原版书就没有问题了。然后你兴冲冲地从亚马逊上买了大几百块的原版,最后却都沦为书架上的摆设。
其实我们只需要简单地进行一下阅读水平衡量,因为词汇量、语感、对于结构的理解和掌握对于阅读原版而言都是十分重要的:
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids(空袭). They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. ( Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much. ) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew ...