SSAT是申请美国中学的必备考试之一。由于SSAT考试内容难度较高。因此不断扩充SSAT词汇量对考生而言是一件迫在眉睫的事情。对于中国的中小学生而言，一下子掌握几千个词汇量的确是一个难题，这就需要我们在日常生活中找到记忆词汇的方法。下面我们看一下记忆词汇的具体方法都有哪些。
SSAT英语考试内容涉及到的生词有很多。新的SSAT词汇量这些主要包括以下内容：
从有趣的阅读中掌握新词汇是一件快乐的事情。以下列出一些既可以让考生爱不释手，又可以从中学习新词的内容。遇见陌生单词的时候，一定要记录在卡片上，并且同时尽量根据下文来猜测其含义。
·小说
"Watership Down" (Richard Adams),"The Outsiders" (S. H. Hinton),"Great Expectations" (Charles Dickens),"Pride and Prejudice"(Jane Austen),"Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Bronte),"The Call of the Wild" (Jack London),"The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes"(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle),"To Kill a Mockingbird"(Harper Lee),"Animal Farm"(George Orwell),"The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn"( Mark Twain),"Things Fall Apart" (Chinua Achebe),"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou)
·报纸
"New York Times" (www.nytimes.com),"USA Today"(www.usatoday.com),"Wall Street Journal"(online.wsj.com)
·杂志
"Times" ,"Newsweek" ,"National Geographic" ,"Popular Science"
·书
·科幻
"The Phantom Tollbooth" (Norton Juster),"The Hobbit" (J. R. R. Tolkien),"The Lord of the Rings" (J. R. R. Tolkien),"I, Robot" (Isaac Asimov),"Fahrenheit 451" (Ray Bradbury),"The War of the Worlds" (H. G. Wells),"Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley)
·非小说
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Frederick Douglass),"The Diary of a Young Girl" (Anne Frank),"The Weight Brothers" (Russell Freedman),"Twenty Years at Hull House" (Jane Addams)
一些专业的词汇书籍和网上资源同样是增加词汇量的好工具。
·书
"Word Power Made Easy" (Norman Lewis),"Word Smart" and "Word Smart II" (Adam Robinson),"Word Smart Junior" and "Word Smart Junior II" (C. L. Brantley)
其中"Word Smart" and "Word Smart II"这两本适用于8-12年级，"Word Smart Junior" and "Word Smart Junior II"这两本适用于6-8年级。
如何扩充SSAT词汇量的方式就介绍到这。同学们在备考SSAT考试的时候，可以根据自己的兴趣选择一种或多种方式进行阅读，提高自己的阅读量，为SSAT考试打下坚实的基础。若想了解更多SSAT英语考试内容的相关信息，欢迎咨询阿斯柏留学专家。
