Knowledge Table Explanation---Senior High School English

Author: Hu Zhiyong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This series of books consistently embodies the spirit of "New Curriculum Standards, New Approaches, and New Question Types" during the writing process. While strengthening the learning of basic knowledge, it focuses on cultivating students' self-learning abilities, striving to make this series act as a "teacher in disguise" and truly become a favorite among students and parents. Specifically, this series has the following characteristics:
1. High Practicality: The series presents knowledge points in chart form, making them clear at a glance and suitable for students' learning and systematic review. It has achieved excellent results in teaching.
2. Strong Targeting: The series closely revolves around the content specified by the New Curriculum Standards, catering to the actual needs of students in different regions and proficiency levels. It fully considers students' characteristics, emphasizes analyzing and explaining different types of examples, systematically summarizes the patterns, methods, and skills of various types of examples, and broadens students' thinking while improving their problem-solving abilities. This helps students avoid incorrect thinking.
3. Systematic Structure: The series organically combines basic knowledge with examination content, following the requirements of the New Curriculum Standards. It breaks down basic knowledge into chapters (units) for writing. The series is divided into four main parts: "Knowledge Point Charts," "Correct Examples," "Incorrect Examples," and "Exercises," providing a comprehensive and systematic explanation and analysis of the content specified by the New Curriculum Standards.
4. Focusing on Key Points: The series aims to comprehensively improve students' thinking abilities. According to students' different characteristics, it carefully designs examples and exercises in layers of "Foundation" → "Ability" → "Advanced." It ensures knowledge is concise and key points are highlighted, covering broader areas step by step to progressively enhance learning skills. While cultivating and improving students' abilities to analyze and solve problems, it emphasizes strengthening their foundational knowledge, progressing from easy to difficult, and systematically improving their learning skills.
According to the Full-Time Senior High School English Teaching Syllabus, the scope of grammar tested in the college entrance examination covers all grammar knowledge learned in middle school. The content is extensive and covers a wide range. In recent years, the majority of questions in the National College Entrance Examination (NMET) have tested not only basic knowledge and usage but also language communication and application abilities. Therefore, simply selecting answers based on isolated grammatical structures and vocabulary meanings will not achieve the goal.
Regarding the content tested in the college entrance examination, the questions assess middle school grammar knowledge from the following five major aspects:
1. Basic grammar knowledge
2. Flexible application of basic grammar knowledge
3. Flexible application of phrase collocations and idioms
4. Correct understanding of the meanings of words and phrases
5. Daily communication expressions
Given the requirements of the college entrance examination, the author has conducted in-depth research on recent examination questions, dividing middle school grammar knowledge into 12 parts:
1. Relative Clauses
2. Adverbial Clauses
3. Noun Clauses
4. Usage of the Pronoun "It"
5. Non-finite Verbs
6. Subject-Verb Agreement
7. Inversion
8. Modal Verbs
9. Subjunctive Mood
10. Word Formation
11. Situational Dialogues
12. Word Collocations
Parts 1-10 are presented in table form, providing detailed explanations of the key differences in middle school grammar points. Each table generally consists of five parts: 1. Concept, 2. Content, 3. Nature, 4. Examples, and 5. Summary. By reading these sections, students not only systematize and complete their grammar knowledge but also grasp the essential distinctions between each grammar point. Additionally, through the examples, students gain insights into the trends of college entrance examination questions, allowing them to review more effectively, generalize from specific cases, and improve their problem-solving skills.
The purpose of question analysis is to strengthen the flexible application of grammar knowledge and further deepen its understanding and mastery. The answer key is designed to guide students on how to think and solve problems.