本书整体框架如英语教材，并按照最新的研究生入学考试大纲进行编写。全书以词汇为中心贯穿始终，分为不同单元进行分化复习，提炼出研究生入学考试中的重点、难点和常考词汇，并综合有关词汇的全部信息，突出全书的含金量，提高考生词汇的应用能力。

本书严格按照最新的研究生入学考试大纲所要求的英语词汇进行编写，以词汇为中心贯穿全书，分为社会生活、文化教育、政治经济、科技空间、人与自然5大主题，内容涉及诸如婚姻、死亡、民间文化、文化适应、政治腐败、智能机器人、厄尔尼诺现象、动物研究等话题。全书覆盖了3900多个需要掌握的词汇，对近300组词汇进行了辨析。书中还提炼出研究生入学考试中的重点、难点和常考词汇，使考生深入了解词汇在考试中的具体运用，突出词汇的实用性，达到学以致用，帮助考生取得更好的成绩。

本书不仅适用于参加研究生入学考试的考生，而且适用于全国英语等级考试4—5级的考生，以及想通过阅读学习词汇、掌握词汇用法的广大读者。

Preface

Instruction manual

PART I  (Social Life)

Unit 1  Models for Marriage

Unit 2 Getting Married in USA

Unit 3 Proper Attitudes Towards Death

Unit 4 A Woman's Beauty

Unit 5 Beauty Is Meaningless

Unit 6 Voice and Personality

Unit 7 Cocksure Women and Hensure Men

Unit 8 Basketball Legend Micheal Jordan Retires

PART II  (Culture and Education)

Unit 9 Folk Cultures

Unit 10 Cultural Adjustment

Unit 11 Cultures Clash in the Schools

Unit 12 Satire

Unit 13 Modern Archaeology and Ancient Literature

Unit 14 Movie Music

Unit 15 Film making

Unit 16 Burdened by Their Book Bags

Unit 17 The Revolution in American Higher Education

Unit 18 Statistics

PART III (Politics and Economy)

Unit 19 Political Corruption

Unit 20 Television and Politics

Unit 21 Did Bush Deceive Us

Unit 22 Women in Colonial North America

Unit 23 Women's Emancipation in Western Societies

Unit 24 The World Invades London

Unit 25 The Iron Horse

Unit 26 Mass Transportation

PART IV (Science and Space)

Unit 27 Of Headless Mice...Men

Unit 28 Ingenious Robots

Unit 29 Begin to Prevent AIDS

Unit 30 The Study of the Footprints of Early Hominids

Unit 31 The Value of Animal Research

PART V (Man and Nature)

Unit 32 Features of Glass

Unit 33 Properties of El Nino

Unit 34 Loss of World Species

Unit 35 What If the Forests Were Silent

Unit 36 How Clean Can You Get

Index I

Index II