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发表于 2007-1-2 18:40:27
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I have read what agldacheng wrote carefully and I found the similarity between us. I also passed the CET-4 in my freshman year, with a grade of 81. And, I passed CET-6, with a surpsieing grade of 87 during the first semester of my sophomore year. At the end of my sophomore year, I took the CET-4 a second time together with all my classmates, and got 86. I felt lucky, especially for my CET-6, but I do know that there's my effort behind the grade, which leads to the "success".
When I was preparing for the first CET-4 and CET-6, I did the same thing. One thing is the real CET-4(6) exam papers of the previous years, and the other is a so-called "training exam papers", by "Wang Changxi" if I remember correctly. In my opinion, the "sinlge choice" is the most valuable part of all the papers, on which I spent lots of time. I memorized all the words and phrases that appeared in the previous years, and I found that there's a great chance that the words will reappear in a few years. So if you can collect the papers from the last ten years, I would say that you won't have a big problem with the words and phrases. Actually this is a common opinion of lots of students who have passed the CET-4(6), and it was proved to be ture. When I took the second CET-4, I didn't even buy the exam papers. I just borrowed the papers from my roommates and had a look at the "single choice section". At that time, almost all of the single choices were about words and phrases, which I of course felt very easy. But my classmates didn't tend to feel the same way.
Ok, enough for the CET. I am not telling you to do the same thing as I did. What I want to say is that there's no shortcut for english learning. You have to work hard on it. If you have made enough effort, even if you don't prepare at all, you will not get a too bad result, in any kind of english exams(except for GRE maybe). To prepare for the CET and to learn englsih are actually the same thing, which is non-separable accordding to my experience. Now I will start to share my experience of english learning.
I really started learning english when I was in high school, actually the third year of high school, by memorizing words that appears on newspapers. At that time, I bought the newpaper called "21st Century", and I only read the parts that were suitable for me and keep notes of the words that I saw frequently on the newspaper( before that, I was keeping notes of the words that appeared on the training exam papers. but then I gave up because I found that the words were rarely used in everyday life). To help me memorize, I use a "Wen Qu Xing", which is a really great thing if you know how to set up your know "words group" and how to make the plan to review them. Also, after I went to the colleage, I kept doing that. I can still remember the many times when I was too concentrated on the newspaper that I forgot the time for the lectures. I didn't realize the benifit of this until I suddenly found that I rarely have difficulties in reading and listening any more. It was at that time that I started watching classic english movies with english subtitles.
So if people want to learn english well, enough words is a necessity. Do not grab a dictionary and starting memorizing. Learn words form the everyday life, from news papers, songs, movies and so on. Keep notes and review frequently (only one or two times means nothing).
One thing I forgot to mention is the grammar, which is enssential for reading. Grammar is important, but it is not difficult(I am not speaking of english as a major). If You could follow your teacher during middle and high school and understand all the grammar that appears on the text books, then your grammar is good enough. That's why I did't touch any grammar thing during colleage. Believe me, if you have really matered all the grammars from middle and high school, you won't have problems at all, even with TOEFL (I got 640 by the way). But if you have some problem with the grammar, finding out your old text books and starting learning is the first thing you should do.
If you are ok with the grammar, then start learning words as I said before. AND, most important, persistance, persistance and persistance. Don't give up if you find no improvment after one or two month, just hang in there. When you suddenly realize that you are better than before, you are actually much better than before, on a higher level if you will.
I remember "Yu Min Hong" once said the following: If you want to keep your english level, at least spent one hour reading or listening or whatever. but if you want to improve your english, spent at least three hours on english everyday. I can't agree more with what he said. Once you start learning words, you will realize how time flies and three hours is too short.
Now I am still leaning english from news and tv-series. I have no problem at reading and listening at all, the only problem left is the speaking. My goal is to speak english as well as Chinese, and I am working for this.
Ok, back to CET as a summary: grammar+words+efficiency+persistance. If you could achieve these, you will find that CET is really a piece of cake. I wish everyone a good success! |
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