Edited English Reading Comprehension 220 Passages

Author: Shi Chunzhen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features:
Clear Objective: This book aims to help readers improve their English reading comprehension skills.
Appropriate Difficulty: The selected articles and questions are of the same difficulty as or slightly higher than the reading comprehension section of the postgraduate entrance English exam.
Diverse Themes: The content covers science and technology, economics, social life, education, and human physiology and psychology.
Up-to-Date Content: All 220 articles are selected from newly published books and journals abroad.
Insightful Annotations: Accurate annotations are provided for 175 of the 220 articles and their exercise answers.
Sentence Analysis: Some difficult sentences in the original text are analyzed syntactically, with Chinese translations provided.
Sentence Structure Analysis: Clear explanations of sentence structures are given for the 44 English-to-Chinese translation exercises in the book.
Supplementary Vocabulary Lists: The book includes a comprehensive list of advanced vocabulary and a list of advanced verbs for 175 of the articles.
Multi-purpose Use: Readers can not only use the syntactic analysis and Chinese translations of difficult sentences in the annotations to verify their understanding of the original text but also use the annotated sentences as material for English-to-Chinese translation practice to improve their translation skills and overall exam readiness, achieving the goal of multi-purpose use.
This book selects 220 English reading comprehension articles. The main genres are argumentative and expository essays, with themes covering science and technology, economics, social life, education, and human physiology and psychology. All articles are selected from publications abroad. The book is divided into 44 units, with 5 articles per unit. The first four articles in each unit are followed by 4 or 5 reading comprehension questions, primarily focusing on deep-level questions such as the main ideas and themes of the articles, the author's perspectives and attitudes, and making inferences and deductions based on the text. The fifth article is an English-to-Chinese translation exercise, where readers are asked to translate the 5 underlined sentences into Chinese.
This book is suitable for readers preparing for the postgraduate entrance English exam. If candidates can read all 220 reading comprehension articles and complete all exercises in this book, their English reading level will undoubtedly be significantly improved.