SAT阅读词汇应用技巧之辨析易混词汇

　　在SAT阅读技巧中，如何应用词汇在文章中挑出答案是非常基础的一个。下面为大家介绍一下如何利用辨析易混词汇来解答题目的SAT阅读技巧，供大家参考和借鉴之用。

　　考生由于对形似、意近的词辨别不清，不知道他们各自的具体用法，在阅读中影响很大，非常有可能产生含义的误导。

　　比如：有的词虽然意思相同，但他们表达同一个意思的程度是不同的;有的英语单词的汉语意思相同，但他们所限定修饰的词、使用的范围或者连接的成分是不同的;有的单词的文体风格不同，有正式和非正式之分。

　　1、Original: Bill Gates gives a definite answer that college education does count.

　　Revised: Bill Gates gave a definitive answer: college education does count.

　　Definite意思是明确的、一定的，指意思明确，不会误解;definitive也是明确的意思，但往往指权威性、最后决定的。此话出自比尔盖茨之口，体现权威性，故将definite改为definitive。

　　2、Original: people may attend a university or college for various reasons...

　　Revised: people attend university or college for a multitude of reasons...

　　此处将various改为短语a multitude of更为正式，体现人们读大学的原因很多。

　　3、Original: The kinds of education that we got on school are formal and intense ones...

　　Revised: The kinds of education that we receive at school is formal and of tentimes very intense.

　　不必用kinds of education，直接用education即可;受教育不同get，改为receive;在学校不必用at school;把one去掉，用oftentimes very intense指出学校教育常常是非常严格的。

　　4、Original: They can foster their interests in some fields to make life more colorful and meaningful.

　　Revised: They can even pick up hobbies to make life more colorful and enjoyable.

　　Foster their interests是培养兴趣，此处用pick uphobbies更为合适;不同的兴趣是我们生活的调味剂，使我们的生活多姿多彩，乐趣无穷，把meaningful换成enjoyable，与colorful搭配更合适。

　　5、Original: Needless to say, more employment means more income andless idle life, so that people can enjoy a better life and makeinvestment in their future.

　　Revised: Needless to say, more employment means income and less idletime, so that people can enjoy a better life and invest in their ownfutures.

　　把idle life改为idle time更为合适，表示闲散时间makeinvestment可改为动词invest，与and前的动词enjoy词性一致;人们各自有自己的未来，故将in theirfuture改为in their own futures。

　　6、Original: Another important factor that contributes to the extension of life expectancy is the development of medical science.

　　Revised: Another imortant factor that contributes to the rise in life expectancy is the development of medical science.

　　人的寿命的延长可以表示为life extension，但是如果用life expectancy，则要用the increast of 或the rise in life expectancy。

　　7、Original: the growth of life span.

　　Revised: the rise in/increase of life span.

　　Life span意思是寿命，growth指生长，增长，寿命的延长用growth不合适，life span寿命的延长可以用rise in/increase of/extension of.

　　8、Original: energy saving

　　Revised: energy efficiency

　　Energy saving一般作定语，此处名词短语节能最好用energy efficiency。

　　9、Original: with the increasing complicatedness of the job profile

　　Revised: with the increasing complexity of the modern jor profile

　　Complicatedness意思是错综复杂，但是这种错综复杂是有逻辑的;complexity也是复杂的意思，但这种复杂是杂乱无辜的，现代的工作情况用complexity较为合适。

　　10、Original: Such experience will difinitely be helpful in childrens later life.

　　Revised: Such experience will benefit them later in life.

　　Helpful是提供帮助的意思，而benefit是使受益。这里作者想说的是孩子将来的人生会受益于这样的经历，用benefit合适，因为这样的经历不一定能对孩子将来的人生提供什么具体的帮助。

　　11、Original: In my submission, people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing.

　　Revised: Because of these circumstances, I believe it is inevitable that people must do what they dont enjoy doing.

　　In ones submission虽然也可以表示某人所持的观点，但是这是一种非常formal的表述，用在这里和整体文章的风格不太相符。

　　12、 Original: For no one can promise what will happen in the future,if you dont save some money, an emergency will probably make you a caton a hot brick.

　　Revised: Because no one can predict the future, if you dont save money an unforeseen emergency can be financially crippling.

　　Promise的意思是承诺、允诺，用在这里不合适，作者要说的是没有人能与之未来发生的事，应该用predit。还有，作者在这里用了一个惯用语a caton a hot brick，这又有一个错误。第一，这个表述本身有错误，正确的应该是like a cat on hotbricks。第二，这个惯用语的意思是忐忑不安，如热锅上的蚂蚁，用在这里意思也不太合适。

　　通过上面的12个例子，大家一定对SAT阅读词汇的应用情况有了一个大概的了解了，对于易混词汇的辨析，大家还是需要在备考中对词汇进行更加精确的掌握，这样才能在考试中恰当的应用这些阅读技巧。