English Speed Reading. Book 1

Author: Lian Xianbian
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Publishing Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is a "National Key Textbook for the 9th Five-Year Plan in General Higher Education" funded by the Ministry of Education, and it is also listed as part of the "CAS Graduate Teaching Series." Written by experienced professors from the Foreign Language Teaching Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate University based on years of teaching experience, it is a crystallization of the hard work of several generations of teachers. The 60 short passages selected in the book are mostly excerpted from contemporary English original books and periodicals, covering a wide range of topics with strong readability. Each passage is followed by reading comprehension questions. At the end of the book, there are a speed test table, an accuracy rate test table, a test record table, and a set of detachable exercise answers. This book is suitable for teaching English to non-English major master's degree students, and it can also serve as a reference book for undergraduate students of various majors in higher education institutions to improve their English skills.