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How Should You Build Up Your Vocabulary
Exactly what do you do during a normal day How do you spend your time Paul T. Rankin very much wanted an answer to that question. To get it, he asked sixty-eight individuals to keep an accurate, detailed record of what they did every minute of their waking hours. When he consolidated (巩固) his findings, he discovered that the average individual spent 70 percent of his waking time doing one thing only--communication. That meant either reading, writing, speaking or listening.
Put that evidence alongside of the research findings uncovered by the Human Engineering Laboratories. In exploring aptitudes and careers involving, among other things, data from 30,000 vocabulary tests given yearly, they discovered that big incomes and big vocabularies go together. Vocabulary, more than any other factor yet known, predicts financial success.
And it all fits. Each word you add to your vocabulary m
A. To teach readers how to enlarge their vocabulary.
B. To explain the meaning of the CPD formula.
C. To introduce some research findings on communication.
D. To encourage readers to throw their dictionaries away.
