GRE词汇究竟有没有用？是终身受益还是“一次性产品”？这一直是个“长盛不衰”的争议话题。现在这个实验希望探索的就是这样一个问题。
二、实验目的
通过对五种英文原版阅读材料的词汇整理、分析。大略得到关于GRE词汇单词出现率及其对于整体阅读理解的情况。并借此归纳出关于“GRE词汇有用否”的大致结论。
三、实验材料
1、《寄托蓝宝书（升级版）》： 寄托天下编写，外研社出版
2、《新东方背单词III》：新东方编写，新东方出版
3、《Jane Eyre 》：Charlotte Bronte编写，世界图书出版社出版
4、《Bleak House》： Charles Dickens编写，BANTAM BOOKS PUBLISHER出版
5、《A Global History》： L.S.Stavrianos编写，北京大学出版社出版
6、《Economics 99/00》： McGraw-Hill编写
7、《The Politics of Global Governance》：Paul.F.Diehl编写，LYNNE RIENNER PUBLISHERS出版
四、实验过程
1、文学类 Jane Eyre
John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten; large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye with flabby cheeks. He ought now to have been at school; but his mamma had taken him home for a month or two, "on account of his delicate health." Mr.Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother’s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John’s sallowness was owing to over-application, and, perhaps, to pining after home.
GRE词汇：stout dingy unwholesome spacious visage limb gorge habitually bilious dim blear flabby delicate affirm harsh pine
非GRE词汇的生难词：sallowness 菜色，脸色发黄
可能影响整体阅读理解的非GRE词汇：sallowness
GRE词汇比例：11.3%
2、文学类 Bleak House
When the practice was concluded, Caddy’s husband made himself ready to go out of town to a school, and Caddy ran away to get ready to go out with me. I sat in the ball-room in the interval, contemplating the apprentices. The two out-door boys went upon the staircase to put on their half-boots, and pull the in-door boy’s hair; as I judged from the nature of his objections. Returning with their jackets buttoned, and their pumps stuck in them, they then produced packets of could bread and meat, and bivouacked under a painted lyre on the wall. The little gauzy girl, having whisked her sandals into the reticule and put on a trodden-down pair of shoes, shook her head into the dowdy bonnet at one shake; and answering my inquiry whether she liked dancing, by replying, "Not with boys," tied it across her chin and went home contemptuous.
GRE词汇：interval contemplate apprentice objection bivouac lyre sandal reticule dowdy bonnet contemptuous
非GRE词汇的生难词：staircase 楼梯，half-roots 半长统靴，gauzy 薄纱似的，whisk 扫拂，trodden-down飞奔，chin 下巴
可能影响整体阅读理解的非GRE词汇：gauzy，whisk
GRE词汇比例：7.4%
