It is found that for non-English majors,both passive vocabulary and controlled active vocabulary progress,but free active vocabulary does not progress apparently.

Laufer put forward a method of dividing SLA learners vocabulary into passive vocabulary,controlled active vocabulary and free active vocabulary.

However,the results of some surveys suggest the college English majors acquire much more passive vocabulary than active vocabulary.

The results reveal that the overall passive vocabulary level has significant effect on writing, but even the vocabulary in learners long memory learned in a single most important course does not have any effect on writing.

Setting from the widely-accepted belief that learners normally have a larger passive vocabulary than an active one, the present study investigated the active and passive vocabulary knowledge of third-year English majors, hoping to get more information about the gap between these two types of vocabulary knowledge and to detect possible ways to narrow it.

Based on the starting point that whether these words could connect objects by their motivation and function,the author makes an analysis of these passive verbs which are devided into the two categories of intransitive of passive verbs and transitive of passive verbs.

On cultural meanings of English and Chinese animal words from cultural perspective;

By analyzing the origin of words cultural connotation as well as comparing the cultural connotation of Chinese and English animal words,the author intends to show that there exist similarities and differences between Chinese and English animal words because of the differences between Chinese and western cultures.

Animal words hAVe abundant cultural meanings, besides that they, of course, represent the animals themselves literally.