Latest College English Test Band 4 Reading and Answering 150 Passages

Author: Xu Guanglian / Zhang Yang / Zhang Shaohua (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The authors have long been engaged in college English teaching and possess extensive experience in marking exams. They have a deep understanding of question-setting approaches, text depth, question types, and common pitfalls of candidates. This book is a reliable companion, offering a solid reason to feel at ease and enjoy your reading time in a relaxed atmosphere, helping you pass the College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) smoothly. The book has the following features:
1. Synchronized with authentic test questions, each article provides several out-of-syllabus vocabulary or phrases to enhance students' ability to guess words and make inferences.
2. After each article, annotations are provided, offering concise explanations of out-of-syllabus words, key terms, difficult sentences, and relevant information for easy reference, saving time and effort of looking up dictionaries.
3. The upper part consists of reading comprehension questions, with every four articles forming a unit. The questions cover common CET-4 question types such as main idea, detail, judgment, deduction, paraphrasing, author's perspective, etc.
4. "Answers and Tips" not only provides answers but also introduces problem-solving strategies and techniques, which can be studied and applied for your own benefit.
5. The lower part includes short-answer questions, with each article containing five questions, requiring answers of no more than ten English words based on the selected passages.
6. Each main text in the upper part has two underlined sentences for readers to focus on. After solving the questions, readers are encouraged to deeply study and attempt to translate these sentences into fluent and accurate Chinese to improve their English-to-Chinese translation skills and prepare for the CET-6 exam. Reference translations can be found in the "Answers and Tips" section.
The book is based on materials from Western newspapers and magazines in the past two years, covering a wide range of topics such as culture, technology, medicine, environment, tourism, education, politics, economics, law, history and geography, sports, literature and art, anecdotes of celebrities, ethics, popular topics, even humorous stories and riddles. This book will accompany you for a year or two, meeting your expectations, keeping you in a good mood throughout the entire preparation process for the CET-4, and leading you into a new and more enticing realm of positivity.