New TOEFL Exam Reading High Score Guidance

Author: Yu Jinghua, Editor-in-Chief of TED New TOEFL Test Research Center
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Exclusive access to ETS core resources LangeEdgeTM. Familiarize with new question types, prepare for the new TOEFL. Comprehensively improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Innovative learning philosophy, practical communication skills. The new TOEFL has broken through traditional exams in both format and content. Many candidates who take the new TOEFL simulation tests organized by our company report a lack of understanding of the test. The focus of this series is to provide candidates and readers with a comprehensive and specific understanding of the new TOEFL. Through tutorial-style learning books, readers will become familiar with the requirements of the new TOEFL in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In the form of abundant exercises and tutorial lectures, learners will effectively improve their English proficiency. This book consists of two parts. The first part is the Basic Skills of Reading, divided into four chapters that meticulously explain how to develop fundamental reading skills, how to cultivate vocabulary learning skills, how to gradually develop reading skills from sentences, paragraphs to passages, and how to develop analytical reading skills—all of which may be useful in the new TOEFL reading test. Each chapter includes: basic reading skills such as skimming and scanning; vocabulary learning methods using contextual clues and word roots; understanding sentences, paragraphs, and passages; developing inference skills and understanding the author's purpose. The second part is the (Exam Preparation) for the new TOEFL reading, divided into ten chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the new TOEFL reading test, while the remaining nine chapters introduce the nine question types in the new TOEFL reading test: vocabulary questions, reference questions, sentence simplification questions, insertion questions, factual information questions, true/false questions, inference questions, rhetorical purpose questions, and passage application questions. Each chapter details the characteristics of the question types, provides answer strategies, and includes exercises to help candidates prepare for the new TOEFL reading test.