. N, H1 X. x- n. c* x& L+ {国外(美国或者法国)的高中生和大学生,都有写作课的,最常见的就是告诉你如何写essay,法国的高中生还要考哲学,所以,一些写作的套路,是必须要懂的,乍一看比较高大上,但看多了就都是比较高级的套路了。比如,论述休谟对康德的影响,这个topic写起来就很讲究技巧了,不专门学,还真不容易写好。所以,写作的话,对于一般人来说,受过训练与否,写出来的东西,还真是有蛮大的差别的。
I have lived and studied in the United States for over 8 years and here are some of my comments : 3 e5 ^" A& I" \1. it is very hard to measure one’s vocabulary and it is basically pointless to brag about how many words a person knows. + O1 m( }/ E7 `' l6 p6 n
2. the SAT has 3 parts and when I took it the perfect score was 2400, and now it’s 1600? I saw this fact in the official test guide somewhere, that if you want to be able to score high in the reading part you need to know about 12000 to 15000 words which is way over 7k or 8k ( the number provided by some of the experts in this forum) : N2 g" O1 N( z1 F1 C9 x
3. please ignore my spelling and punctuation errors in this comment because it’s in a hurry and I really do not want to proof read what I say here