题型:选词填空(语篇) 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
上海市行知高中2020-2021学年高一下学期英语4月第一次月考英语试卷(含完整音频)
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Can a precise word total ever be known? No, says Professor David Crystal, known chiefly for his research in English language studies and author of around 100 books on the . "It's like asking how many stars there are in the sky. It's impossible to answer," he said.
An easier question to answer, he , is the size of the average person's vocabulary. He suggests taking a sample of about 20 or 30 pages from a medium-sized dictionary, which about 100,000 entries or 1,000 or 1,500 pages.
Tick off the ones you know and count them. Then that by the number of pages and you will discover how many words you know. Most people vastly underestimate their .
"Most people know half the words—about 50,000—easily. A reasonably educated person about 75,000 and a really cool, smart person well, maybe all of them but that is rather . An ordinary person, one who has not been to university say, would know about 35,000 quite easily."
The formula can be used to calculate the number of words a person uses, but a person's active language will always be less than their , the difference being about a third.
Prof Crystal says exposure to reading will obviously expand a person's vocabulary but the level of a person's education does not decide things. "A person with a poor education perhaps may not be able to read or read much, but they will know words and may have a very vocabulary about pop songs or motorbikes. I've met children that you could as having a poor education and they knew hundreds of words about skateboards that you won't find in a dictionary."
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