Essential Vocabulary for Doctoral Entrance Exams: A Guide for Doctoral Candidates

Author: Chen Wenxing, Chen Bin
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Publish Date: 2006-02-14
Features: Doctoral Entrance Exam Guidance Series: Vocabulary for Doctoral Entrance Exams (2004 Edition) is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the "Teaching Syllabus for Master's and Doctoral Degree English" issued by the Ministry of Education and the needs of doctoral entrance exams. For non-English major candidates, vocabulary is a major challenge in passing the doctoral entrance English exam. The vocabulary involved in the doctoral entrance English exam is not only extensive in quantity but also frequently includes obscure words. If the vocabulary base is insufficient, it may be difficult to achieve ideal scores. This book is divided into six chapters, totaling over 6,700 vocabulary items (excluding the more than 5,000 vocabulary items required by the undergraduate teaching syllabus for College English) and over 1,000 phrases. The vocabulary is primarily selected from the "Graduate English Vocabulary List" issued by the Ministry of Education and graduate English textbooks from universities such as Peking University, Renmin University of China, University of Science and Technology of China, and Tsinghua University. The entire book is arranged in a graded order from easy to difficult. Chapters marked with "x" contain more challenging vocabulary, and candidates can refer to them based on their own needs. Chapter 6 includes 400 vocabulary practice questions to help candidates consolidate their review. The book also includes content such as English grammar and a compilation of doctoral entrance English exam questions at the end. It should be noted that for the sake of saving space, annotations are added to some easier vocabulary and example sentences, which may result in inconsistent formatting. We kindly ask our readers for their understanding. This book is suitable not only for candidates preparing for doctoral entrance exams but also for TOEFL, GRE, EPT (WSK) candidates and.