High school English classified reading. Intermediate level

Author: Zhao Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Closely aligns with the new Curriculum Standards, suitable for various textbook versions. The Full-Time Secondary School English Teaching Syllabus states that listening, speaking, reading, and writing should be comprehensively trained in English teaching. While further improving listening and speaking skills, it emphasizes cultivating reading comprehension abilities. In middle and high school examination questions, reading comprehension is not only the foundation for cloze tests, reading comprehension questions, error correction questions, and written expression tests, but also grammar, collocations, and word spelling questions in multiple-choice questions must be completed based on understanding the sentence meaning. The new Middle School English Curriculum Standards require different levels of reading skills, including skimming, inferring, scanning, finding, skipping, reading details, predicting, understanding the structure of the text, grasping the main idea, understanding chart information, distinguishing the thesis and arguments of the text, understanding reference, guessing word meaning, understanding logical relationships, understanding the author's intention, and evaluating reading content. The Classified Reading for Middle School English is scientifically categorized and cleverly designed, covering various examination question types, making it an effective tool to solve the above problems. This book has the following three features:
1. Wide range of topics and diverse genres. Each book in this series contains about 120 articles, divided into different units, covering a broad scope. Through training, students can not only horizontally improve their understanding of various genres of articles and comprehensively expand their knowledge; at the same time, if students have relatively weaker reading abilities in a certain type of topic, they can target this type of article for specialized reading and training, thereby vertically improving their reading comprehension skills in a specific knowledge area.
2. Scientificly arranged exercises. In addition to reading comprehension questions, the book also includes an "Answer and Explanation" section and "NOTES," enabling readers to thoroughly study each article.
3. Moderate difficulty. According to the high school English curriculum standards, the book selects articles with a general vocabulary retention rate of 3%. Students can guess the meaning of these words while reading, but it does not significantly affect their overall understanding of the text.