在學生平時的SAT寫作練習中，留學的老師們通過長期的觀察與總結，發現了6類常見的問題，這是導致學生在考試中丟分的原因。詞彙一直都是中國學生的弱點，所以一些容易混淆的詞彙使得學生在SAT寫作中使用的時候會出現錯誤，今天我們就來看SAT寫作6類常見問題之一：容易混淆的詞彙。
考生由於對形似、意近的詞辨別不清，不知道他們各自的具體用法，而在寫作中出現失誤。比如，有的詞雖然意思相同，但他們表達同一個意思的程度是不同的;有的英語單詞的漢語意思相同，但他們所限定修飾的詞、使用的範圍或者連接的成分是不同的;有的單詞的文體風格不同，有正式和非正式之分。
1、Original: Bill Gates gives a definite answer that college education does count.
Revised: Bill Gates gave a definitive answer: college education does count.
Definite意思是明確的、一定的，指意思明確，不會誤解;definitive也是明確的意思，但往往指權威性、最後決定的。此話出自比爾蓋茨之口，體現權威性，故將definite改為definitive。
2、Original: people may attend a university or college for various reasons...
Revised: people attend university or college for a multitude of reasons...
此處將various改為短語a multitude of更為正式，體現人們讀大學的原因很多。
3、Original: The kinds of education that we got on school are formal and intense ones...
Revised: The kinds of education that we receive at school is formal and of tentimes very intense.
不必用kinds of education，直接用education即可;受教育不同get，改為receive;在學校不必用at school;把one去掉，用oftentimes very intense指出學校教育常常是非常嚴格的。
4、Original: They can foster their interests in some fields to make life more colorful and meaningful.
Revised: They can even pick up hobbies to make life more colorful and enjoyable.
Foster their interests是培養興趣，此處用pick up hobbies更為合適;不同的興趣是我們生活的調味劑，使我們的生活多姿多彩，樂趣無窮，把meaningful換成 enjoyable，與colorful搭配更合適。
5、Original: Needless to say, more employment means more income and less idle life, so that people can enjoy a better life and make investment in their future.
Revised: Needless to say, more employment means income and less idle time, so that people can enjoy a better life and invest in their own futures.
把idle life改為idle time更為合適，表示閒散時間make investment可改為動詞invest，與and前的動詞enjoy詞性一致;人們各自有自己的未來，故將in their future改為in their own futures。
6、Original: Another important factor that contributes to the extension of life expectancy is the development of medical science.
Revised: Another imortant factor that contributes to the rise in life expectancy is the development of medical science.
人的壽命的延長可以表示為life extension，但是如果用life expectancy，則要用the increast of 或the rise in life expectancy。
7、Original: the growth of life span.
Revised: the rise in/increase of life span.
Life span意思是壽命，growth指生長，增長，壽命的延長用growth不合適，life span壽命的延長可以用rise in/increase of/extension of.
8、Original: energy saving
Revised: energy efficiency
Energy saving一般作定語，此處名詞短語節能最好用energy efficiency。
9、Original: with the increasing complicatedness of the job profile
Revised: with the increasing complexity of the modern jor profile
Complicatedness意思是錯綜複雜，但是這種錯綜複雜是有邏輯的;complexity也是複雜的意思，但這種複雜是雜亂無辜的，現代的工作情況用complexity較為合適。
10、Original: Such experience will difinitely be helpful in childrens later life.
Revised: Such experience will benefit them later in life.
Helpful是提供幫助的意思，而benefit是使受益。這裡作者想說的是孩子將來的人生會受益於這樣的經歷，用benefit合適，因為這樣的經歷不一定能對孩子將來的人生提供什麼具體的幫助。
11、Original: In my submission, people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing.
Revised: Because of these circumstances, I believe it is inevitable that people must do what they dont enjoy doing.
In ones submission雖然也可以表示某人所持的觀點，但是這是一種非常formal的表述，用在這裡和整體文章的風格不太相符。
12、 Original: For no one can promise what will happen in the future, if you dont save some money, an emergency will probably make you a cat on a hot brick.
Revised: Because no one can predict the future, if you dont save money an unforeseen emergency can be financially crippling.
Promise 的意思是承諾、允諾，用在這裡不合適，作者要說的是沒有人能與之未來發生的事，應該用predit。還有，作者在這裡用了一個慣用語a cat on a hot brick，這又有一個錯誤。第一，這個表述本身有錯誤，正確的應該是like a cat on hot bricks。第二，這個慣用語的意思是忐忑不安，如熱鍋上的螞蟻，用在這裡意思也不太合適。
學生在平時的SAT寫作中要注意自己寫文章的總體風格，在正式文體中避免使用非正式的語言。鑒於選詞的難度，考生應在平時注意多查詞典，注意其中所舉得例句，在看英語材料時留心寫作詞彙的具體使用環境，並摘錄一些自己能看明白但說不出的表達。
考生由於對形似、意近的詞辨別不清，不知道他們各自的具體用法，而在寫作中出現失誤。比如，有的詞雖然意思相同，但他們表達同一個意思的程度是不同的;有的英語單詞的漢語意思相同，但他們所限定修飾的詞、使用的範圍或者連接的成分是不同的;有的單詞的文體風格不同，有正式和非正式之分。
1、Original: Bill Gates gives a definite answer that college education does count.
Revised: Bill Gates gave a definitive answer: college education does count.
Definite意思是明確的、一定的，指意思明確，不會誤解;definitive也是明確的意思，但往往指權威性、最後決定的。此話出自比爾蓋茨之口，體現權威性，故將definite改為definitive。
2、Original: people may attend a university or college for various reasons...
Revised: people attend university or college for a multitude of reasons...
此處將various改為短語a multitude of更為正式，體現人們讀大學的原因很多。
3、Original: The kinds of education that we got on school are formal and intense ones...
Revised: The kinds of education that we receive at school is formal and of tentimes very intense.
不必用kinds of education，直接用education即可;受教育不同get，改為receive;在學校不必用at school;把one去掉，用oftentimes very intense指出學校教育常常是非常嚴格的。
4、Original: They can foster their interests in some fields to make life more colorful and meaningful.
Revised: They can even pick up hobbies to make life more colorful and enjoyable.
Foster their interests是培養興趣，此處用pick up hobbies更為合適;不同的興趣是我們生活的調味劑，使我們的生活多姿多彩，樂趣無窮，把meaningful換成 enjoyable，與colorful搭配更合適。
5、Original: Needless to say, more employment means more income and less idle life, so that people can enjoy a better life and make investment in their future.
Revised: Needless to say, more employment means income and less idle time, so that people can enjoy a better life and invest in their own futures.
把idle life改為idle time更為合適，表示閒散時間make investment可改為動詞invest，與and前的動詞enjoy詞性一致;人們各自有自己的未來，故將in their future改為in their own futures。
6、Original: Another important factor that contributes to the extension of life expectancy is the development of medical science.
Revised: Another imortant factor that contributes to the rise in life expectancy is the development of medical science.
人的壽命的延長可以表示為life extension，但是如果用life expectancy，則要用the increast of 或the rise in life expectancy。
7、Original: the growth of life span.
Revised: the rise in/increase of life span.
Life span意思是壽命，growth指生長，增長，壽命的延長用growth不合適，life span壽命的延長可以用rise in/increase of/extension of.
8、Original: energy saving
Revised: energy efficiency
Energy saving一般作定語，此處名詞短語節能最好用energy efficiency。
9、Original: with the increasing complicatedness of the job profile
Revised: with the increasing complexity of the modern jor profile
Complicatedness意思是錯綜複雜，但是這種錯綜複雜是有邏輯的;complexity也是複雜的意思，但這種複雜是雜亂無辜的，現代的工作情況用complexity較為合適。
10、Original: Such experience will difinitely be helpful in childrens later life.
Revised: Such experience will benefit them later in life.
Helpful是提供幫助的意思，而benefit是使受益。這裡作者想說的是孩子將來的人生會受益於這樣的經歷，用benefit合適，因為這樣的經歷不一定能對孩子將來的人生提供什麼具體的幫助。
11、Original: In my submission, people should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing.
Revised: Because of these circumstances, I believe it is inevitable that people must do what they dont enjoy doing.
In ones submission雖然也可以表示某人所持的觀點，但是這是一種非常formal的表述，用在這裡和整體文章的風格不太相符。
12、 Original: For no one can promise what will happen in the future, if you dont save some money, an emergency will probably make you a cat on a hot brick.
Revised: Because no one can predict the future, if you dont save money an unforeseen emergency can be financially crippling.
Promise 的意思是承諾、允諾，用在這裡不合適，作者要說的是沒有人能與之未來發生的事，應該用predit。還有，作者在這裡用了一個慣用語a cat on a hot brick，這又有一個錯誤。第一，這個表述本身有錯誤，正確的應該是like a cat on hot bricks。第二，這個慣用語的意思是忐忑不安，如熱鍋上的螞蟻，用在這裡意思也不太合適。
學生在平時的SAT寫作中要注意自己寫文章的總體風格，在正式文體中避免使用非正式的語言。鑒於選詞的難度，考生應在平時注意多查詞典，注意其中所舉得例句，在看英語材料時留心寫作詞彙的具體使用環境，並摘錄一些自己能看明白但說不出的表達。
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