College English Test Band 4 (CET-4) Full Strategy for Achieving 710 Points. Reading Section

Author: Liang Wei
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book is meticulously compiled according to the newly released reformatted question types and retained original question types announced by the National College English Test Committee of the Ministry of Education in 2005. It is divided into four volumes: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Comprehensive. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the characteristics and key points of all question types in the College English Test Band 4. It strives to align the difficulty levels of each question type with the upcoming post-reform tests. The contributing authors are all chief examiners and grading committee members appointed by the National College English Test Committee.
Features of the Book:
1. Covers all categorized and analyzed authentic test papers from June 1995 to June 2005.
2. Multi-perspective listening dialogues (long conversations, short conversations), paragraph-style listening, and compound dictation, categorized by themes, with refined techniques, and provides common idioms in spoken dialogues with Chinese and English parallel examples.
3. Multi-perspective vocabulary differentiation: root word analysis, synonyms and near-synonyms, and visually similar words. Categorized exercises with clear objectives, closely aligned with exam questions.
4. Multi-perspective cloze tests: categorized analysis of grammar and sentence structures, transitioning from vocabulary and structure questions to cloze test answering techniques.
5. Multi-perspective reading comprehension (careful reading and rapid reading), categorized explanations with high-frequency words provided for categorized exercises, integrating subjective and objective questions.
6. Clear techniques for short-answer questions.
7. Translation exercises (Chinese-to-English sentences) focus on practicality, emphasizing fixed sentence patterns and drills, while de-emphasizing translation theory. It is the first to introduce a method of sentence-pattern-based translation.
8. Multi-perspective writing explanations and skill analysis are thorough, with comprehensive writing templates, novel essay topics, abundant classic expressions, and practicality, covering argumentative essays, expository essays, and chart-based essays. It strengthens the writing of abstracts, picture commentaries, and application essays such as letters.
The book is accompanied by an audio cassette recorded by foreign language experts (a combination of British and American accents).