Super·Graded and Categorized English-Chinese Comparative Reading Materials·Beginner. Popular Science Section: Beginner. Popular Science Section

Author: Dong Qiming
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The "Super·Graded and Categorized·Chinese-English Parallel Readings·Beginner" series is designed for senior high school students, first-year university students, and English self-learners with equivalent English proficiency. It aims to improve the English reading skills of young readers, broaden their knowledge, expand their vocabulary, and prepare them for the college entrance examination and English proficiency tests. This series consists of four volumes: "Science and Technology," "Literature and Arts," "Economy and Law," and "Comprehensive." It strives to cover all vocabulary, language points, knowledge points, grammatical phenomena, and themes found in college entrance examination English reading comprehension passages.
The content of "Science and Technology" involves the latest developments in various fields such as the Internet, the universe, animals, plants, humans, medicine, health, ecology, the environment, household appliances, cloning, psychology, and spirituality.
The content of "Literature and Arts" includes introductions to writers, artists, novelists, and poets and their works, as well as interesting anecdotes and classic stories from various fields like film, dance, music, fashion, clothing, and architecture. It also features humorous fables, strange events, and stories.
The content of "Economy and Law" covers international finance, the world economy, economic system reforms, juvenile delinquency, corruption, counter-terrorism, the judicial system, murder, robbery, credit card fraud, inflation, money, contracts, taxes, and import/export trade.
The content of "Comprehensive" includes politics, military affairs, education, sports, transportation, tourism, geography, as well as customs, festivals, marriage customs, dietary habits, and study methods of different countries.
Each volume contains 100 passages, with each passage typically ranging from 300 to 450 words. To facilitate learning, each passage is followed by annotations, exercises, reference translations, and answers. Some passages are also accompanied by illustrations related to the content, helping readers reinforce their understanding in a relaxed and enjoyable way.
The 21st century is an era full of challenges, especially requiring our young people to possess broad knowledge, the ability to understand things, flexibility in language use, and sensitivity to trends. To meet these needs, we present this series to our readers. We hope it can help them improve in multiple aspects while acquiring English knowledge. Let English learning become a window to master knowledge.