Graduate English Intensive Reading Course. Upper

Author: Wu Yidian, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The "Graduate English Course" is compiled in accordance with the "Teaching Syllabus for English Instruction for Non-English Majors at Graduate Level" issued by the Ministry of Education. The entire course is divided into two volumes, each containing ten main texts and ten supplementary texts, designed for non-English major graduate students. This book is a reading course, with all texts selected from authentic English-language materials from the UK and the US, with each text approximately 1,800 words in length. The selected texts cover a wide range of topics, exhibit diverse genres, and are highly readable, featuring contemporary themes. The sentences are of moderate difficulty, suitable for brief teacher explanations and student discussions. The book boasts a rich vocabulary with a high frequency of common word repetition, and its exercises are systematic and practical. The exercise sections include: reading comprehension, vocabulary and phrases, sentence rewriting, cloze, error correction, Chinese-English translation, root-based word completion, and applied writing. To enhance students' understanding of English word roots and effectively expand their vocabulary through root-based learning, this book includes an ETYMOLOGY section. The applied writing exercises in the book introduce common real-life topics, accompanied by model answers for students to refer to and emulate. The supplementary exercises are designed to deepen students' comprehension of the texts and improve their basic language skills and application abilities, ultimately achieving the teaching objectives outlined in the "Syllabus" to cultivate students with relatively proficient reading skills, certain writing and translation abilities, and fundamental listening and speaking skills. Additionally, each lesson is accompanied by thought-provoking proverbs and aphorisms or entertaining riddles and word puzzles.