Reading the Way: Intermediate Reading Improvement

Author: Chen Longmei Shen Liping
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is a highly targeted and instructive reading reference designed to substantially improve students' reading skills. The 40 articles in the book are selected from foreign newspapers, magazines, and academic works, covering a wide range of topics such as economics, culture, popular science, and biographies in the fields of social sciences and natural sciences. The articles vary in genre, including argumentative, narrative, descriptive, and expository forms. The question design covers common types found in the CET-4 exam, such as main idea questions, inference questions, detail questions, and vocabulary inference questions. Each article is followed by a vocabulary list to help readers reinforce the CET-4 vocabulary. The authors have also compiled annotations for each article, selecting grammar difficulties, typical sentence structures, and word phrase usages. Additionally, all 40 articles come with reference translations to help readers better understand the content and improve their translation skills. Each article is followed by a vocabulary list to help readers learn and reinforce the CET-4 vocabulary. Most of the words are from the CET-4 exam, while a few are from the CET-6 and post-CET-6 vocabulary. Each article is followed by 10 English definition choice questions. Through practice, readers can develop the ability to think in English, cultivate their English sense, and learn how to replace written words with simple words in spoken language. To help readers familiarize themselves with the question-setting style of the CET-4 exam and improve their overall reading skills, the author has designed 5 reading comprehension questions for each article. These questions cover various practical exercises found in the CET-4 exam, such as main ideas and general meaning, details and facts, sentence relationships, inference and judgment, opinions and attitudes, vocabulary and phrases. By combining the main ideas, opinions and attitudes, and inference and judgment questions during reading, readers will gain a better understanding of the article's themes and improve their ability to grasp the overall context. We have carefully selected grammar difficulties, typical sentence structures, and word phrase usages in each article and compiled them into annotations. This helps readers master some idiomatic expressions and practical grammar and sentence structures.