High School English Classification Reading -- Intermediate Version

Author: Zhao Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Closely 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, emphasis should be placed on cultivating reading comprehension abilities. In middle and high school examination questions, reading comprehension is not only the foundation for cloze tests, reading comprehension questions, error correction questions, and written expression tests, but also grammar, collocation, and word spelling questions in multiple-choice questions must be completed based on understanding the sentence meaning. The new Secondary School English Curriculum Standards require different levels of reading skills, including skimming, inferring, scanning, searching, skipping, reading details, predicting, understanding the structure of the text, grasping the main idea, understanding chart information, distinguishing the thesis and supporting arguments of the text, understanding reference, guessing word meaning, understanding logical relationships, understanding the author's intention, and evaluating reading content. The Classified Reading for Secondary School English is scientifically categorized and cleverly designed, covering various examination question types, making it an effective tool to solve the aforementioned problems. This book has the following three features:
1. Diverse Themes and Genres. Each book in this series contains approximately 120 articles, divided into different units with a wide range of coverage. Through training, students can not only horizontally improve their understanding of various genres of articles and comprehensively expand their knowledge; additionally, if students have relatively weaker reading abilities in a specific type of thematic article, they can target this type of article for specialized reading and training, thereby vertically enhancing their reading comprehension skills in a particular knowledge area.
2. Scientific Exercise Arrangement. In addition to reading comprehension questions, the test structure also includes "Answer and Analysis" and "NOTES" sections, enabling readers to thoroughly study each article.
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%. Students can guess the meanings of these words while reading, but it does not significantly hinder their overall understanding of the text.