CET-4 English Reading Comprehension: In-depth Analysis of 100 Passages

Author: Hu Min
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: The overall characteristics of this book can be summarized as a wide range of materials, novel topics, detailed interpretations, and comprehensive annotations. The articles in the book are all newly published contemporary writings, with fresh language, covering various hot topics in contemporary Western society, such as education, philosophy, law, economics, finance, technology, environment, industry, medicine, sociology, linguistics, astronomy, and more, making the content rich. The annotations for each article include five aspects: text analysis, vocabulary notes, difficult sentence breakdown, topic analysis, and reference translations, striving for comprehensiveness and helping to solve language difficulties from the perspectives of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and the entire text, thereby clearing reading obstacles. The "Text Analysis" section outlines the writing structure, summarizes the main theme of the entire text, and reveals the hierarchical relationships. The "Vocabulary Notes" provide annotations for words and phrases in the text that are above the CET-4 level (including some CET-4 scope but more emphasized), giving their meanings in the text and other common usages. Given the importance of background knowledge to reading comprehension, detailed interpretations are provided for some culturally rich terms in the material.