High school English classified reading. Advanced version

Author: Gao Wenbo
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The full-time secondary school English teaching syllabus points out: In English teaching, listening, speaking, reading, and writing should be comprehensively trained. While further improving listening and speaking skills, emphasis should be placed on cultivating reading comprehension abilities.
Advanced Concept: Fully applying the research findings of modern linguistics and pedagogy, it suits the cognitive characteristics of students of various grades and age groups. It is focused and targeted, achieving a revolutionary breakthrough in traditional reading materials.
Scientific Positioning: This book is not designed for reading just for the sake of reading, but aims to improve students' comprehensive English proficiency through reading comprehension. It examines students' mastery of basic knowledge such as vocabulary and grammar, while also cultivating their analytical, inductive, and logical thinking abilities.
Rich Content: This series is scientifically and comprehensively categorized, with diverse section designs, helping to build students' solid knowledge foundation and broaden their humanities perspective, enabling them to excel in exam situations through accumulated strength.
Authored by Experts: Led by the renowned educator Zhang Guanglu, and jointly created by special and senior teachers from the Haidian District Education Bureau of Beijing, this series establishes its authoritative status.
Reading comprehension is one of the most important question types in the college entrance examination English test, with large volume, high difficulty, and significant scoring weight. Observing recent years' college entrance examination English papers, compared to previous years, the following characteristics are evident: First, for articles of the same length and number, the time required to complete them has been shortened, meaning reading speed must be increased; second, the () scope of the articles is particularly broad, such as advertisements, scientific knowledge, social issues, etc. If students lack cultural literacy, it is truly difficult to tackle reading comprehension questions. Therefore, students should read various () and styles of articles, learn to analyze, summarize, deeply understand, and infer the author's emotions. To improve reading comprehension skills, training in two aspects is essential: understanding and speed. In the past, we often used analytical intensive reading, but now we should adopt understanding-based speed reading, using extensive reading to systematically and purposefully cultivate comprehension skills; under the premise of comprehension, continuously increase reading speed, expand vocabulary, broaden knowledge, and improve reading accuracy. This book is compiled with the above goals in mind and has the following three features:
1. Wide () and Diverse Styles. Each volume in this series contains about 120 articles, divided into different units, covering a broad range. Through training, students can not only horizontally improve their understanding of various styles of articles and comprehensively increase knowledge but also, if their reading ability for a particular () of articles is relatively weak, target this area with specialized reading and training to vertically enhance their reading comprehension skills in that knowledge domain.
2. Scientific Exercise Arrangement. In addition to reading comprehension questions, the test structure includes "Answer and Analysis" and "Notes" sections, enabling readers to thoroughly study each article.
3. Moderate Difficulty. According to the high school English curriculum standards, the number of new words in the selected articles is generally controlled between 3% and 5%. Students can guess the meanings of these new words while reading, but they do not significantly hinder their overall understanding of the article.
This series is divided into 3 volumes and is aimed at high school students and college/university students of equivalent proficiency. It can also serve as a teaching reference for teachers. Due to the authors' limited expertise, shortcomings are inevitable. We sincerely welcome criticism and corrections from readers and teaching professionals.