詞匯的廣度

英語專業研究生入學考試的英語知識以及閱讀理解題取材較為廣泛，語體正式，大多取材于文學經典，以及有關社會科學和人文學科最新發展的時尚文章。因此，詞匯測試不僅要求考生有較大的詞匯量，而且詞匯涉及的領域要廣。

例1The arms race became away to measure who was winning.And since the central battlefield was quiet,both sides helped allies in their local struggles—in other words,proxy（代理人）wars.（外交學院基礎英語真題）

例2It is adistressing fact that any system of censorship is bound,upon occasion,to treat unjust aparticular work of art—to find pornography（色情）where there is only gentle eroticism（情愛）to find obscenity（淫穢）where none really exists,or to find both where the work’s existence ought to be tolerant because it serves alarger moral purpose.That is the price one has to be prepared to pay for censorship,even liberal censorship.（北京外國語大學基礎英語2005年閱讀Passage One）

例3Depressed by the appalling grotesqueries（怪誕）of the election season,the smears,leaks,lies and alibis（托詞）—and crushed by my beloved Cardinals’obliteration（抹去）at the hands of the unstoppable Red Sox,I search for abit of encouragement,an infinitesimal（極小，無窮小）spark to raise my sagging（低垂）spirit.（上海交通大學英語水平考試2005）

例4The bombardments of World WarⅡwere followed by the depredations（蹂躪）of profiteers and politicians–for–rent who reduced the city to ademoralized shadow of itself,surviving on government handouts.（上海外國語大學基礎英語2005）

例5The Vygostsky model reintroduces all the people who also inhabit the child’s world—parents,caregivers,relatives,siblings（同胞兄弟姐妹）and all those other children at play or school.（清華大學基礎英語2005）

顯而易見，這些詞匯有的時常出現在英語專業八級考試中，有的經常出現在美國的GRE考試中，甚至還有少部分只出現在英研考試中，由此可見，考研基礎英語測試無論在出題形式和表達的深刻程度上都超過英語專業八級，與GRE考試相當但不盡相同。