Senior High School English Categorized Reading -- Advanced Version

Author: Zhao Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: 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, proofreading questions, and written expression tests but also grammar, collocation, and word spelling questions in multiple-choice questions, which 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 Middle School English Classification Reading scientifically classifies and cleverly designs questions, covering various examination types, making it an effective tool to solve the above problems. This book has the following three features:
1. Wide Range of Themes and Diverse Genres. Each book in this series contains about 120 articles, divided into different units with a broad coverage. Through training, students can not only horizontally improve their understanding of various genres of articles and comprehensively expand their knowledge but also, if they are relatively weak in reading certain types of articles, focus specifically on those articles for targeted reading and training, thereby vertically enhancing their reading comprehension skills in specific knowledge areas.
2. Scientific Exercise Arrangement. In addition to reading comprehension questions, the test structure also includes "Answer and Analysis" and "NOTES" sections, enabling readers to read and study each article thoroughly.
3. Moderate Difficulty. According to the high school English curriculum standards, the vocabulary difficulty of the selected articles in this book is generally controlled at 3%-5%. Students can guess the meaning of these words while reading, but it does not significantly affect their overall understanding of the text.