When English majors graduate, they have to take CET-8 (with a vocabulary of about 8000), which is the highest level of English education in China. High-level students can achieve better results in professional oral exams such as advanced interpretation.
But if you just want to graduate, you must reach at least CET-4 (vocabulary 6000). At the same time, you should have a certain foundation of listening, speaking, reading and writing, be able to complete normal communication with British and American people, and be able to engage in basic translation work.
According to the requirements of CET-4, master the cognitive vocabulary of 8000 words, and use 3000-4000 words and their most basic collocations correctly and skillfully; According to the standard vocabulary requirements of TEM-8, you need 13000 words, and you need to master about 8000 words skillfully!
English vocabulary for postgraduate entrance examination can be divided into two parts:
The first part is 4000 basic vocabulary, that is, as a fourth-year student in an ordinary university, he has either fully mastered the vocabulary he often sees or is very familiar with it. This part of the vocabulary research focuses on the extension of meaning, the similarity of form and meaning, the meaning of familiar words and pragmatic collocation.
The second part is the core vocabulary around 1200. This part is often synonymous with other words that we rarely see or have seen before. For the investigation of this vocabulary, we generally investigate the common semantics rather than the flexible use; The third part is that the remaining 300 words belong to super-class vocabulary, which requires us to reason and understand according to context and logic.