Contemporary Advanced English Reading

Author: Yao Ximing / Wang Hong, Editors
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: "A Practical English Series" is a high-level English learning textbook, including three volumes: "Contemporary Advanced English Reading," "Contemporary Advanced English Writing," and "Contemporary Advanced English-Chinese Translation." It is designed for non-English major graduate students, senior English majors, and self-learners with a solid foundation in English. This volume is "Contemporary Advanced English Reading," which focuses on cultivating students' ability to read high-difficulty and newly updated English articles. Compared to similar textbooks, it has the following characteristics: (1) Advanced writing philosophy. Guided by contemporary reading cognition theory, it highlights the practicality and timeliness of the subject matter, emphasizes the breadth and depth of the content, features diverse exercise formats, and combines the memorization of objective information with the development of subjective thinking skills. (2) Fresh and broad content. Most of the texts in the book are selected from publications in the United States and the United Kingdom in the past five years, covering more than ten disciplines such as language, culture, science and technology, economy, education, and literature and arts. (3) Natural and standardized language. The authors of the articles are all renowned experts and scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom. The specific division of labor for the writing of this volume is as follows. Zhu Qiaolian: Units 3, 6, 10, 11, and 12; Yao Ximing: Units 1, 17, 18, and 20; Ma Li: Units 5, 7, and 13; Wang Hong: Units 4 and 14; Feng Jianghong: Units 15 and 16; Yang Zhaoming: Units 2 and 9; Feng Guoping: Units 8 and 19. The overall writing format of the book was determined by Wang Hong and Yao Ximing, and finally compiled by Yao Ximing. This book is a high-level English reading textbook aimed at non-English major graduate students and senior undergraduate students, cultivating their ability to read high-difficulty and newly updated English articles. Its features are: guided by contemporary reading cognition theory, highlighting the practicality and timeliness of the subject matter, emphasizing the breadth and depth of the content, featuring diverse exercise formats, combining the memorization of objective information with the development of subjective thinking skills, most of the texts in the book are selected from publications in the United States and the United Kingdom in the past five years, covering more than ten disciplines such as language, culture, science and technology, economy, education, and literature and arts; the language is natural and standardized, and the authors of the articles are all renowned experts and scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom.