2007 Graduate Entrance Exam English Living and Learning 2000 Difficult Words

Author: Bai Jie
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: A concise yet comprehensive classic vocabulary book, covering all words in the syllabus, with 6 bonus gifts included. It selects high-difficulty, key, low-frequency, and uniquely challenging words from the syllabus as main entries, linking to other syllabus words to facilitate learning by association and mastery. Through methods like expansion, association, and categorization, it helps candidates build the concept of vocabulary chains, enabling them to learn one word and remember a series. It includes 700 carefully compiled self-assessment questions, with either Chinese or English as the central word, to help candidates conduct periodic self-assessments. This book is a concise yet comprehensive vocabulary review guide for postgraduate entrance exams, aimed at helping candidates master basic words while focusing on key, difficult, and easily confused words. The entries in the book contain over 2,000 words that candidates need to prioritize, with the "Active Learning" and "Active Application" sections covering all vocabulary candidates must master. Additionally, the new syllabus adds over 400 words, all presented in entry form. The book is designed with the following principles in mind: emphasizing vocabulary learning methods, innovating in vocabulary arrangement, and pursuing learning efficiency. Its distinguishing features from other postgraduate vocabulary books are:
1. Concise and Comprehensive Word Selection: The book's writing principle is to be concise yet comprehensive. Although the syllabus requires mastery of 5,500 words, based on the author's years of postgraduate tutoring experience, it has been found that words causing comprehension difficulties for candidates do not exceed 2,000. Therefore, we have selected high-difficulty, key, low-frequency, and uniquely challenging words from the syllabus as the main entries, while also incorporating potentially relevant out-of-syllabus words and words not included in the CET-6 syllabus.
2. [Active Learning] – Emphasizing Word Memorization: The book condenses entries, using "learning by association" and "mastering through familiarity" to expand associations and memory.
3. [Active Application] – Emphasizing Word Usage: When listing word usage, the book primarily uses phrases to provide examples for each Chinese definition under the entry. It pays special attention to explaining usage nuances, extended meanings, semantic shifts, and differences in expression between Chinese and English during language conversion. The goal is to help candidates grasp the true meaning of each word in context and learn how to use them effectively.
4. [Segmented 100-Question Self-Assessment] – Designed to Test Review Effectiveness: The book carefully compiles 700 self-assessment questions, divided into 7 groups, with either Chinese or English as the central word, for candidates to evaluate their progress. The new syllabus adds a separate 7th group of self-assessment questions with over 400 new words to help candidates focus their practice.
In summary, the book is syllabus-based, exam-oriented, meticulously selected, and expertly compiled, concise yet focused. We hope this book not only helps candidates overcome the challenge of memorizing difficult words but, more importantly, provides an efficient learning method for vocabulary, enabling them to pass the exam with high scores.