在複習考研英語的時候，許多同學只注意記單詞，很少花時間熟悉詞組。這是複習的一個誤區，也是學習的一個誤區。後果之一是句子裡的詞都認識，但是無法理解其意思，或者自以為明白了，其實理解的意思是錯的。套用英語裡的一句話，叫做「不熟悉詞組所造成的危害再怎麼說也不為過」。下面以2005年考研英語閱讀部分第一篇文章首段為例：
Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behavior is regarded as all too human, with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
文中的黑體(系本文作者所加)代表的是同一個詞組：all too(非常，太)。如果不認識這個詞組，對原文的理解就會打折扣，而對於文章後面的問題(正確答案為[B])也難以駕馭：
The statement it is all too monkey(Last line, Paragraph 1) implies that
[A] monkeys are also outraged by slack rivals.
[B] resenting unfairness is also monkeys nature.
[C] monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other.
[D] no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions.
無獨有偶，這一年閱讀部分第四篇文章的第一題的正確答案也包含all too這個詞組。
According to McWhorter, the decline of formal English
[A] is inevitable in radical education reforms.
[B] is but all too natural in language development.
[C] has caused the controversy over the counter-culture.
[D] brought about changes in public attitudes in the 1960s.
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