High School Entrance Exam Essential English Vocabulary Handbook

Author: Zhuang Zhixing
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book avoids three obvious shortcomings of similar books: first, omitting key points; second, being irrelevant; and third, failing to distinguish between primary and secondary content. This book achieves the following: based on the requirements of the secondary school English teaching syllabus and the college entrance examination syllabus, as well as the needs of students preparing for the exam, it accurately controls the scope of vocabulary, ensuring that all essential words are included and unnecessary ones are excluded. It also clearly indicates three levels of vocabulary, providing detailed explanations for key words and concise coverage for general ones. Additionally, each entry is marked with the specific chapter and lesson in the textbook where the word first appears, facilitating easy reference for readers. The book offers comprehensive explanations of word usage, as well as related grammar and idiomatic expressions. This includes: countable and uncountable nouns, singular and plural forms, the use or non-use of articles, collocations with prepositions and verbs, verb tenses, voices, moods, sentence patterns, collocations with nouns and prepositions, subject-verb agreement for adjectives. It also covers the use of adjectives as attributive and predicative modifiers, collocations with nouns and prepositions, word order issues, inversion, and other important linguistic points. Special reminders and guidance are provided in example sentences for key language points, such as: [Note idiomatic usage], [Note sentence patterns], [Note collocations], [Note what should not be said and what should be said], and so on.