考生们想有效的备考托福,西安新航道老师建议大家都来看看,托福写作中挑选词汇的技巧,同时也能检测考生的语言功底怎么样,下面跟随西安新航道老师一起来看看怎样在托福写作中挑选词汇:
怎样在托福写作中挑选词汇
托福写作是考察考生综合运用英语语言的能力,包括一篇文章的单词、短语和句子,要求考生能够很好的准确用词、多样化的句式结构以及精妙得体的修辞会使整篇文章极富感染力。同时也要把握熟练恰当地运用语篇要素会令你的作文妙笔生花。
考生在写作用词中好很容易犯的毛病就是词汇反复在作文中出现,英语用词上本身没有问题,但就是在表达的方式中意思太过模糊,所以很多情况下应该使用意义更加准确的词;
下面老师就给大家举几个例子:
1. Original:Young people tend to think that real life is as nice and interesting as it isin the novels and movies, while more experienced adults think this kind ofnaive daydream will only be destroyed by later experiences and every one shouldlearn to get used to common everyday life. Revised:Young people tend to think that real life is as dramatic and fascinating as itis in the novels and movies, while more experienced adults think this kind ofnaive daydream will only be destroyed by later experiences and every one shouldlearn to get used to tedious everyday life.
亮点评析:nice、common以及interesting三个普通的词汇用到句子中显现的很平淡。nice的意思是“好的,令人愉快的”,interesting是“有趣的”,这两个词都不能准确地描绘出年轻人所憧憬的美好生活,句中想表达的是年轻人认为生活如同小说、电影一般充满戏剧变化,要体现这层含义应该用dramatic、fascinating。dramatic表示“刺激的,戏剧性的,给人深刻印象的”,fascinating表示“具有强烈吸引力人,使人神魂颠倒的”,这两个词的程度要比nice,interesting深得多,表现力也更强。
2. Original:Some other people think that people should read extensively.
Revised:Another position says that people should read extensively.
亮点评析:同know,believe一样,think也应该尽量避免使用,修改后的句子中是用Another position says that…代替think提出另一种观点,也可以用hold a point of view,hold the opinion这样的短语替换。
3. Original: Ireally believe that smoking is harmful to people’s health.
Revised: Ihave a profound conviction that smoking is harmful to people’s health.
亮点评析:conviction的意思是“坚定的看法或信仰”,have aprofound conclusion表示对某种看法深信不疑,作文中提出观点的句子用have a profound conclusion会比用believe态度更坚决,立场更鲜明,而且believe这个词非常简单,是英语初学者就应掌握的词汇,换成have a profound conclusion立即增加了句子的复杂程度,体现了较强的语言运用能力。类似的提出观点的表达还有:
I hold apoint of view that…
I hold theopinion that…
以上就是西安新航道老师给大家详细介绍的“怎样在托福写作中挑选词汇”内容,除此之外考生们要想最终想以高分托福结尾,那单词的积累和多样性是必不可少的。更多有关托福写作方面内容,欢迎大家点击在线咨询联系我们的专业老师!