第七届希望之星大学组决赛选手杜宇：学习经验

　　我是这样学英语的

　　My View of Memorizing Vocabulary

　　I often hear people complaining about the difficulty of remembering vocabulary, some even consider memorizing a certain amount of new words everyday as tormenting exercise, because they associate the process of memorizing vocabulary to tediousness, which require extra persistence to pull it through, others regard vocabulary as something that is easy to remember, but much easier to forget. While my suggestion is that you focus on the words that are frequently used in daily communication.

　　When you read English newspapers, magazines or textbooks, don't pick out every new word for you to memorize, you could simply make a judgment before spending time on them. Only choose the word that has meaning to you, I mean those you would probably use in your own life later on. Then, after getting acquainted to these words, try to bear them in mind wherever you go, to see whether you can reanimate these words against the present background. Just let your imagination go wild, and make a sentence or two upon your surroundings with new words. So when you come back and relive the situation you just experienced, it is much likely that the sentence you created just now would surface as well.

　　However, this way of remembering new words just help you have a deep impression at the beginning, as for an indelible understanding of new words; you'd better refer to them as often as possible.

　　One good choice is to read newspapers. Newspapers generally use luminous and practical words, and it seems that they have the same fixed set of vocabulary, which means you may find the same cluster of words applying to the similar topics in every issue. That enables you to consolidate your vocabulary steadily. But this is of course a passive way of remembering your words, so perhaps you could write down some sparkling sentences in the newspaper, and then try to read it several times a day, because putting new words in the context is much better and meaningful way of memorizing them, and you will better understand the words in the similar structure.

　　Listening to VOA or BBC is another good choice. It functions mainly as newspapers, but the difference is that, listening stimulates the audio differentiation of new words while reading helps more in the form of shape and order.

　　Finally, you should know, Rome is not built in a day, so memorizing vocabulary still needs a lot of time and energy.

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　　我眼中的杜宇

　　认识杜宇有一年多了。 一年里，杜宇作为非英语专业的学生代表宁波大学参加全国、全省、全市的各级英语大赛中： “CCTV杯英语演讲赛”、“外研社杯英语演讲赛”、“全国大学生英语竞赛”、还有这一次的“希望之星”英语风采大赛。很多人诧异一个非英语专业的选手会成为浙江省赛区的冠军。我觉得这再自然不过，因为在我所认识的英语和非英语专业的所有学生中，没有人比他更喜欢英语、更能领略学习英语的乐趣了。

　　杜宇对英语语言之美尤其是音韵之美、词汇之美达到了痴迷的程度。05年他参加英语比赛时所用的自备稿演讲的题目是：Think, thank is sinking. 杜宇喜欢这样的文字游戏，喜欢追求用词的精当和对仗的工整。

　　杜宇是个很会利用时间的人。每天中午11点半和下午五点是食堂最拥挤的时候。很多同学一放了学就赶往食堂，为的是早早地填饱肚子，可是单单排队就要耗费十到二十分钟。这个时候杜宇是不会出现在这里的。此刻，他正坐在科技学院的小河边手捧书本沉浸在阅读的快乐之中。作为非英语专业的学生，每天能够用五六个小时学习英语，时间就是这样挤出来的。

　　杜宇最喜欢的读物是《21世纪报》。杜宇熟悉校园的每个报摊，知道在周四的时候哪一家最先出售《21世纪报》。报纸买来以后，他会用上一天的时间仔细阅读每个栏目。遇到精彩的句子，他就会记录下来。杜宇有两本摘抄本，一本记录口语，一本记录写作。我见过其中的一本。写得密密麻麻，上面做满记号，因为使用频繁有些散落。

　　熟悉杜宇的人都知道他能说一口地道的英语。他和我们学校的很多外教都是朋友。有几个还是他的好朋友。杜宇用自己学到的新词用来和老外交流，得到肯定后再拿到英语角去练习。他是英语角的常客，几乎每周你都能在英语角找到他的身影。

　　这就是我眼中的杜宇。一个醉心英语，外表潇洒，内心腼腆的大男孩。

　　(选手老师：林艳)