Graduate English Reading 150 Pieces

Author: Liu Yuhui
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Publishing Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This book is characterized by its broad selection of materials, strong targeting, and strong guidance. The articles in the book are mostly selected from various English publications, monographs, and English teaching materials of the same level at home and abroad. The topics are diverse, including social science, culture, popular science, history, geography, daily life knowledge, biographies, and other content in the fields of social science and natural science; the writing styles are varied, including narrative, descriptive, argumentative, and expository forms, providing readers with materials that are both readable and interesting. According to the requirements of the syllabus and the cognitive development of graduate students in language and thinking, the articles selected for this book have a certain level of difficulty in both language and content; there are quantitative requirements, with the reading volume of each unit being close to the 1,600–1,800 words stipulated in the "Graduate English Degree Course Examination Syllabus" (excluding titles and options); the exercises are designed to focus on testing readers' understanding of the main ideas of the articles and the author's viewpoints and attitudes; the reading skills section also addresses these aspects and emphasizes summarizing the main idea, making predictions, reasoning, and inferencing. Words that are beyond the syllabus and affect understanding are annotated, with annotations placed after the corresponding reading passage, as much as possible using English definitions, to ensure reading continuity and facilitate further learning for students (especially those with limited vocabulary).