High School English Extracurricular Reading 365 Articles (Grade 11)

Author: Xu Qifu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Wang Maimai Book Brand, which originated in the 1980s. In 1987, a book titled The Spy Catcher by a former British MI5 intelligence officer caused a sensation in Western society, and China Central Television reported on it during the News Broadcast. As a result, the domestic publishing industry was inspired, scholars and translators worked tirelessly to search for publishing information, and relevant publishers did their utmost to seize publishing opportunities. However, it was the unknown Wang Maimai who emerged victorious from the crowd, signing a contract with Yangtze Literature and Art Publishing House. Making his debut, he achieved a resounding success, with the first edition of his translation of The Spy Catcher selling nearly 100,000 copies. Once the victory was secured, it was unstoppable. In the following years, Wang Maimai continued to deliver success with his translations of works such as Royal Sisters, Midnight Thoughts, Nancy Reagan's Memoirs, and The Unpublished Works of Mark Twain, each becoming bestsellers. After 1990, due to teaching commitments, Wang Maimai began to compile college English textbooks and teaching materials for the CET-4 and CET-6 exams. From then on, small and large bookstores near universities across the country frequently discovered the best-selling varieties of Wang Maimai English books hitting the shelves. It was as if overnight, with a spring breeze, a thousand trees blossomed like pear blossoms. In the domestic college English teaching materials market, Wang Maimai English stood alone for years, truly leading the trend for over a decade. Today, the Wang Maimai English series has already hundreds of titles, covering subjects from middle school to college and postgraduate entrance exams. Its brand has gained increasing popularity among readers due to its exceptionally clear explanations of textbook difficulties and its precise grasp of exam trends. Surveys show that students from many universities and middle schools across the country own Wang Maimai brand books, with almost every student having one, demonstrating the brand's immense popularity. The English Curriculum Standards issued by the Ministry of Education require that, in addition to textbooks, students accumulate a total of over 360,000 words in extracurricular reading. Read one article a day, and you will break through the 10,000-volume mark. 365 Extracurricular English Readings for Middle School Students is a complete set of 6 books, suitable for students from 7th to 12th grade. It has the following features:
1. Innovative Layout: Time as the vertical axis, with one article per day; reading as the horizontal axis, integrating knowledge and culture to create a new learning space in English, enabling readers to naturally develop the habit of English reading.
2. Rich Content: Large amount of information, diverse themes, and substantial content, offering a knowledge-based, engaging, and systematic reading experience that general reading materials cannot match. It allows readers to read ahead, select, and revisit content based on their individual needs.
3. Strong Targeting: Each reading passage is accompanied by comprehension questions to assess your understanding, expression prompts to share your insights, and annotations to help you grasp the text accurately and improve your skills. Additionally, it includes a daily proverb or quote, which not only cultivates readers' comprehensive ability to learn and use English but also provides convenient self-guided reading materials for different levels and needs, serving as a supplement to reading.