考托福/SAT需要的词汇量是多少？

ETS的说明里没有规定词汇量，但有培训机构根据历年真题统计出词汇的频率来确定托福的词汇量是15412个，去掉常用词、地名、人名等，还有5283个。（数据来自新东方老师）

所以背托福单词选择好的词汇书非常必要：

1、李笑来托福词汇21天（基础不好的先背这个）

2、王玉梅的TOEFL词汇（大概8000多）

3、托福iBT一万词

这三本书的词频都是经过科学统计的，市场上有些书质量参差不齐，对托福帮助不大。

王玉梅TOEFL不错,很系统.但干巴巴地背,很容易忘记,建议你先背赵丽大学词汇课堂,再背赵丽8000.

因为她采用生动幽默的串讲和口诀让学生轻松深刻地记忆核心单词,背完后你会掌握2000-8000这个范围单词.

但不建议用赵丽5500,因为赵丽大学词汇课堂是2000-6000的范围，概函大学核心单词.由于赵丽单词是核心词,宽度不够.这时再用排除法背王玉梅TOEFL,把不懂的钩出来背.

运用赵丽方法你会感觉轻松多了,而且不懂的单词也不会多了.通过这样的过程,单词记的比较牢固.单词量超8000.够应对TOEFL了。

因为考TOEFL其实词汇量要求不高,10000以下够了,它更多的是考词汇在文章起什么作用.把5000左右的核心词吃透更重要,这会加快你阅读效率加深对文章理解.这是我考TOEFL 115分心得.希望能帮上你.

SAT所涵盖的词汇量大约是28000，但是你不需要有这么大的词汇量，也没必要。因为核心词汇只有12000左右，当然如果你只想用28000的词汇量去涵盖那12000，我也没话说。

所以，如果你想省时省事的话，只需要12000的词汇就好。

大学4、6级是很CHEAP的词汇，TOEFL要背，再背背SAT的就好。一共大概7000左右吧。

如果你有毅力的话，可以2个月背完。

不过你有时间，就每天背50-100个就差不多了。其实不多的，在我看来每天这个数字很少的，因为长久来看你会发现会忘记很多。要坚持!

词汇量少的人，可以先用10天把星火（4级就够了）过一遍。然后，3遍的TOEFL一万，14天。之后就是5天一遍，5天一遍地过托福1万。

这中间如果丧失信心，可以拿21天提升自信。

过完10遍的托福一万。（你会发现，过到后面你用的时间越来越少！）之后，红宝书的干活。背红宝书之前，把Barron的3500个单词，在红宝书上画出来。这是你死也要背的！先是2天一遍，25天。之后过叁遍。

另外，单词是个体力活。不是技术活！只要肯努力，有决心，没问题的！ 

SAT考试的备考关键是扩充词汇量。由于SAT阅读部分难度比TOEFL要大，所考的文章选段大多是从文学名著中直接节选或改编，也有些是从科普或严肃性的报刊上选摘出来的。在复习阅读部分时，除了做大量的模拟题练习外，还可以通过看《自然》、《国家地理》等原版杂志，增加对自然科学、 人文科学、社会科学及文学的涉猎来提高阅读能力。

SAT巴朗综合的那本书里有个阅读清单，里面的书都很好。如果你要SAT考个很好的成绩，我建议20天左右读完一本500页左右的小说。要连续读，不出半年，保管有很大的成效。这比背单词要高效多了。不过，第一本是很难入手的。因为很多词不认识，不光是SAT的词汇，很多生活中的词汇你都会不认识。如果能坚持读完一本，以后的路就会好走得多。所以第一本一定要选你感兴趣的。并且生词不是越多越好，一页书里生词你20%不认识，你查词典就能把你所有的兴趣能杀掉.... 

这几个书是一般美国学生在Junior或者Senior Year里面会用到的书，就是他们在考SAT期间会看的书。他们的英语课没有课本，就是一本一本的看名著，从名著里面学阅读和写作。

Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》塞林格 J.D. Salinger

The Kite Runner《追风筝的人》卡勒德·胡赛尼 Khaled Hosseini

A Prayer for Owen Meany《为欧文·米尼祈祷》 约翰·欧文John Irving

The Crucible《萨勒姆女巫》  阿瑟·密勒 Arthur Miller

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn《哈克贝里·芬历险记》马克·吐温 Mark Twain

 

因为SAT有时候阅读会考小说 有时是从名著中摘的一部分 所以多看看狄更斯/简奥斯丁的小说 同时也实在是非常棒的小说。偶像啊~~~ 推荐几本： 

Jane Austen：《Pride and Prejudice》、《Sense and Sensibility》、《Emma》…… 

Charles Dickens：《A Tale of Two Cities》、《Great Expectations》…… 

还有海明威/马克吐温的作品。其余的，F. Scott Fitzgerald的《The great Gatsby》比较短，不过写得还不错。

我以前在国内学SAT的时候有老师推荐我的书单。后来出了国，仍然觉得这个书单不错。你可能觉得很多，我建议每一类读一两本就基本可以了：《傲慢与偏见》、《德伯家的苔丝》、《包法利夫人》、《死魂灵》、《羊脂球》、《红字》《双城记》、《简·爱》、《悲惨世界》、《卡门》、《高老头》、《飘》、《约翰·克利斯朵夫》、《红与黑》、《人性的枷锁》、《欧也妮葛朗台》、《大卫·科波菲尔》……

还有这些：

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

A beautiful mind

Twilight

The painted veil

The guardians

Wuthering Height

Gone with the wind

The thorn bird

The phemton of the opera

Romeo and Juliet

I know why the cage bird sing

The call of the wild

Little Women 

Warriors don't cry

你没这个时间？可以读读杂志：《ECONOMICS》、《NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC》、《TIMES》……

推荐阅读清单（College Bound Reading List）- Compiled by Arrowhead Library System 

Agee, James 

A Death in the Family 

Story of loss and heartbreak felt when a young father dies. 

Anderson, Sherwood 

Winesburg, Ohio 

A collection of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the Midwest. 

Baldwin, James 

Go Tell It On the Mountain 

Semi-autobiographical novel about a 14-year-old black youth's religious conversion. 

Bellamy, Edward 

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 

Written in 1887 about a young man who travels in time to a utopian year 2000, where economic security and a healthy moral environment have reduced crime. 

Bellow, Saul 

Seize the Day 

A son grapples with his love and hate for an unworthy father. 

Bradbury, Ray 

Fahrenheit 451 

Reading is a crime and firemen burn books in this futuristic society. 

Cather, Willa 

My Antonia 

Immigrant pioneers strive to adapt to the Nebraska prairies. 

Chopin, Kate 

The Awakening 

The story of a New Orleans woman who abandons her husband and children to search for love and self-understanding. 

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 

The Ox-Bow Incident 

When a group of citizens discovers one of their members has been murdered by cattle rustlers, they form an illegal posse, pursue the murderers, and lynch them. 

Cormier, Robert 

The Chocolate War 

Jerry Renault challenges the power structure of his school when he refuses to sell chocolates for the annual fundraiser. 

Crane, Stephen 

The Red Badge of Courage 

During the Civil War, Henry Fleming joins the army full of romantic visions of battle which are shattered by combat. 

Dorris, Michael 

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water 

Three generations of Native American women recount their searches for identity and love. 

Ellison, Ralph 

Invisible Man 

A black man's search for himself as an individual and as a member of his race and his society. 

Faulkner, William 

As I Lay Dying 

The Bundren family takes the ripening corpse of Addie, wife and mother, on a gruesomely comic journey. 

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 

The Great Gatsby 

A young man corrupts himself and the American Dream to regain a lost love. 

Gaines, Ernest 

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 

In her 100 years, Miss Jane Pittman experiences it all, from slavery to the civil rights movement. 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 

The Scarlet Letter 

An adulterous Puritan woman keeps secret the identity of the father of her illegitimate child. 

Heller, Joseph 

Catch-22 

A broad comedy about a WWII bombardier based in Italy and his efforts to avoid bombing missions. 

Hemingway, Ernest 

A Farewell to Arms 

During World War I, an American lieutenant runs away with the woman who nurses him back to health. 

Hurston, Zora Neale 

Their Eyes Were Watching God 

Janie repudiates many roles in her quest for self-fulfillment. 

Kesey, Ken 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 

A novel about a power struggle between the head nurse and one of the male patients in a mental institution. 

Lee, Harper 

To Kill a Mockingbird 

At great peril to himself and his children, lawyer Atticus Finch defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town. 

Lewis, Sinclair 

Main Street 

A young doctor's wife tries to change the ugliness, dullness and ignorance which prevail in Gopher Prairie, Minn. 

London, Jack 

Call of the Wild 

Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for Klondike gold. 

McCullers, Carson 

The Member of the Wedding 

A young southern girl is determined to be the third party on a honeymoon, despite all the advice against it from friends and family. 

Melville, Herman 

Moby-Dick 

A complex novel about a mad sea captain's pursuit of the White Whale. 

Morrison, Toni 

Sula 

The lifelong friendship of two women becomes strained when one causes the other's husband to abandon her. 

O'Connor, Flannery 

A Good Man is Hard to Find 

Social awareness, the grotesque, and the need for faith characterize these stories of the contemporary South. 

Parks, Gordon 

The Learning Tree 

A fictional study of a black family in a small Kansas town in the 1920s. 

Plath, Sylvia 

The Bell Jar 

The heartbreaking story of a talented young woman's descent into madness. 

Poe, Edgar Allan 

Great Tales and Poems 

Poe is considered the father of detective stories and a master of supernatural tales. 

Potok, Chaim 

The Chosen 

Friendship between two Jewish boys, one Hasidic and the other Orthodox, begins at a baseball game and flourishes despite their different backgrounds and beliefs. 

Salinger, J.D. 

The Catcher in the Rye 

A prep school dropout rejects the "phoniness" he sees all about him. 

Sinclair, Upton 

The Jungle 

The deplorable conditions of the Chicago stockyards are exposed in this turn-of-the-century novel. 

Steinbeck, John 

The Grapes of Wrath 

The desperate flight of tenant farmers from Oklahoma during the Depression. 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 

Uncle Tom's Cabin 

The classic tale that awakened a nation about the slave system. 

Twain, Mark 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, travel down the Mississippi in search of freedom. 

Vonnegut, Kurt 

Slaughterhouse-Five 

Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist from Ilium, New York, shuttles between World War II Dresden and a luxurious zoo on the planet Tralfamadore. 

Walker, Alice 

The Color Purple 

A young woman sees herself as property until another woman teaches her to value herself. 

Wells, H.G. 

The Time Machine 

A scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future. 

Welty, Eudora 

Thirteen Stories 

A collection of short stories about people and life in the deep South. 

Wolfe, Thomas 

Look Homeward, Angel 

A novel depicting the coming of age of Eugene Gant and his passion to experience life. 

Wright, Richard 

Native Son 

Bigger Thomas, a young man from the Chicago slums, lashes out against a hostile society by committing two murders. 

The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998.
　　1. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)　　2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)　　3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)　　4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)　　5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)　　6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)　　7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)　　8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)　　9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)　　10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)　　11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)　　12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)　　13. 1984, George Orwell (1949)　　14, I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)　　15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)　　16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)　　17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940)　　18. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)　　19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)　　20. Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)　　21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)　　22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)　　23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937-trilogy completed)　　24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)　　25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)　　26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)　　27. The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)　　28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)　　29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)　　30. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)　　31. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)　　32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)　　33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)　　34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)　　35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)　　36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)　　37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)　　38. Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)　　39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)　　40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)　　41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)　　42. Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)　　43. A Dance to the Music of Time(series), Anthony Powell(1975-series completed)　　44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)　　45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)　　46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)　　47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)　　48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)　　49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)　　50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934) 　　51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)　　52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)　　53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)　　54. Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)　　55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)　　56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)　　57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)　　58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)　　59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)　　60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)　　61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)　　62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)　　63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)　　64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)　　65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)　　66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)　　67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)　　68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)　　69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)　　70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960-series completed)　　71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)　　72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)　　73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)　　74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)　　75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)　　76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)　　77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)　　78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)　　79. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)　　80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)　　81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)　　82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)　　83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)　　84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)　　85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)　　86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)　　87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)　　88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)　　89. Loving, Henry Green (1945)　　90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)　　91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)　　92. Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)　　93. The Magus, John Fowles (1966)　　94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)　　95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)　　96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)　　97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)　　98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)　　99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)　　100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)