题目内容:
A strong vocabulary can be a valuable asset, both in college and later in your career. Considerable research evidence suggests the students who are most successful in school are those with the largest vocabularies. Other research ties job advancement to vocabulary level .In one study, successful business executives were found to have the highest vocabulary of any occupational group.Your vocabulary is also an important personal characteristic upon which people form their first, but lasting, impression of you. Your vocabulary reveals a lot about you and is particularly important in job interviews, oral class presentations, discussion group classes, and papers and exams that you write.
How would you rate your vocabulary? Many students answer either “good” or “terrible”, but vocabulary knowledge is not an either-or, two-choice situation. Try the following quiz, which will help you realize that vocabulary ability is much more than “Either I know the word or I don’ t.” Do not be concerned with how you score on the quiz; its purpose is to make a point, not to measure your vocabulary level.
1. The word “asset” in line 1 probably means_________
2. The author tries to convince his readers of ________.
3. The purpose in following the quiz is to _____________.
4. People’s _________of you is also influenced by you vocabulary.
5. The passage mainly deals with the impo
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