People's Education Press - Conquer Gaokao English Reading

Author: Yin Shufeng
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The book has the following characteristics:
1. Broad themes and styles. The reading materials cover many aspects such as daily life, biographies, customs and cultures at home and abroad, legends and stories, social and cultural issues, politics and economics, history and science, short essays, natural phenomena, news reports, sports activities, advertisements, letters and notices, and indexes. At the same time, the styles include narrative texts, descriptive texts, and argumentative texts.
2. Natural and vivid language. The selected materials are all from original English articles (with minor modifications adapted to the actual needs of senior high school students in a few cases) to reflect authentic and natural language features. Additionally, the chosen articles are fresh, engaging, and timely, embodying the principle of keeping pace with the times and striving to create an efficient reading platform for readers.
3. Scientific and reasonable question design. The question format simulates the style of reading comprehension questions in the college entrance examination, closely aligning with the ability requirements of the exam. The reliability, difficulty, validity, and discrimination of the questions are consistent with those of the college entrance examination questions. In summary, the questions in this book are highly targeted, forward-looking, simulated, and guiding.
4. Emphasis on guidance. The greatest feature of this book is "Translation and Detailed Explanations of Difficult Sentences," where the translation of difficult sentences is a first in English books nationwide. It truly helps students understand the meaning of the text and overcome the "bottleneck" phenomenon in reading comprehension. The detailed explanations of answers make the key points clear to students, while also revealing the compilers' problem-solving approaches, guiding students' thinking step by step, helping them form correct problem-solving strategies, master problem-solving techniques, and truly achieve the principle of "handling changes with unchanging methods."
5. Scientific and advanced format. The book first conducts in-depth and high-quality discussions on the hot issues commonly concerned by readers in reading comprehension. It provides guidance on learning methods, then arranges 15 high-quality simulated test papers and 3 college entrance examination papers. Finally, it highlights the difficulties in each question, following the format of "Guidance—Training—Guidance." This format prioritizes the student while also aligning with the readers' psychological, physiological, and cognitive levels.
6. Reader-centered. The design of this book is consistently centered on the reader. Whether in material selection or the guidance of answers, it starts from the students' receptive psychology, cultivating their problem-solving skills in reading comprehension. This enables students to master the problem-solving skills of this type of question in a time-efficient, effort-efficient, and highly effective manner, ultimately helping them pass the college entrance examination with ease!