Conquer the Gaokao English Reading

Author: Yin Shufeng
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The book has the following characteristics:
1. Broad and. The reading materials in this book cover many aspects such as daily life, biographies, customs and cultures at home and abroad, legends and stories, social culture, politics and economy, history and science, short essays, natural phenomena, news reports, sports activities, advertisements, letters and notices, and indexes. At the same time, the includes narrative essays, descriptive essays, and argumentative essays.
2. Natural and vivid language. The selected materials are all from original English articles (with minor modifications to suit the actual needs of senior high school students), reflecting authentic language features. The selected articles are fresh, engaging, and timely, demonstrating the principle of keeping pace with the times, and striving to create an efficient reading platform for readers.
3. Scientific and reasonable question design. The question design simulates the style of reading comprehension questions in the college entrance examination, closely aligning with the ability requirements of the exam. The reliability, difficulty, validity, and discrimination of the questions are consistent with those of the college entrance examination questions. In summary, the targeted, forward-looking, simulated, and guiding nature of the questions in this book are extremely high.
4. Focus on guidance. The major feature of this book is "Translation and Detailed Explanations of Difficult Sentences," where the translation of difficult sentences is a first in English books nationwide. It can truly help students understand the meaning of the text and overcome the "bottleneck" phenomenon in reading comprehension. The detailed explanations of the answers make it clear to students what the key points are, while also revealing the compilers' problem-solving approach, gradually guiding students' thinking, helping them form correct problem-solving strategies, master problem-solving techniques, and truly achieve the principle of "handling changes with unchanging methods."
5. Scientific and advanced format. The book first conducts in-depth and high-quality discussions on the hot issues that readers generally focus on in reading comprehension, provides guidance on learning methods, then arranges 15 high-quality simulated test papers and 3 college entrance examination test papers, and finally points out the difficulties in each question of the papers. The "Guidance—Training—Guidance" format reflects a student-centered approach, and this format is arranged in accordance with the readers' psychological, physiological characteristics, and cognitive levels.
6. Reader-centered. The design of this book is always centered on the reader. Whether in the selection of materials or the guidance of answers, it starts from the students' acceptance psychology, cultivates their problem-solving skills in reading comprehension, and enables them to master the problem-solving skills of this type of question in a time-saving, labor-saving, and efficient manner, ultimately helping them pass the college entrance examination with ease!