40 Days to Conquer the College English Test Band 4 - Writing & Translation Practice Book

Author: Jiang Tao
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is structured by days, providing a daily learning plan for you. Not only does it include explanations of knowledge and skills, but it also prepares ample exercises to help you progress and gradually build confidence. The four units are as follows:
Unit 1: Basic Skills. Many teaching institutions focus on writing templates and emphasize the importance of writing long sentences. Since this is an unavoidable issue, let’s face it head-on and address them all in this section. I have categorized many excellent templates and sentence patterns from the CET-4 and CET-6 exams, providing in-depth explanations and exercises to help you master their usage effortlessly.
Unit 2: Organizational Structure. After mastering the basic skills, we need to focus on how to organize them into coherent passages. In this section, we will spend 4 days learning about the internal structure of paragraphs, through practice, to grasp the writing methods of English paragraphs. The next 6 days will divide CET-4 essays into 6 major patterns, analyze these patterns, and provide practical templates related to them. The goal is to enable candidates to handle any CET-4 writing style with ease, construct clear frameworks, and write in an orderly and structured manner.
Unit 3: Exam Sprint. After mastering the ability to organize passages, we should carefully grasp the characteristics of the CET-4 exam to strive for excellence and score the highest possible points based on our abilities. The CET-4 exam is, after all, a testing method, and any test has its inherent logic. In the first 4 days of this section, we will discuss the requirements, scoring methods, common mistakes, and more for the CET-4 writing section. We will also analyze the latest exam questions in detail, revealing many high-scoring techniques. The following 6 days will require you to write one essay each day, compare your work with model answers, analyze your weaknesses, and further improve. Additionally, you will memorize two model essays and be provided with some beautiful works for appreciation.
Unit 4: Translation Section. Combining the study of writing, we will further explore a type of question in the CET-4 exam’s three-choice section—translation—by learning its problem-solving methods and techniques.