Graduate English Extensive Reading Course (Revised Edition) Graduate English Series Textbooks

Author: Lu You Shan
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: The texts in this book are carefully selected from more than 30 books, newspapers, and magazines published in recent years in the UK and the US, as well as hundreds of articles. The texts reflect global hot issues and the latest achievements and developments in various fields, combining strong knowledge and entertainment value. The topics are diverse, covering a wide range of genres, and the content involves fields such as science and engineering, social sciences, agriculture and forestry, finance and economics, and medicine. The vocabulary is extensive. The average length of each text is about 1,300 words, and the number of words in each text is indicated at the end for easy monitoring and assessment of reading speed. To facilitate self-study, the vocabulary notes for each lesson have been increased by about 50%, and revisions have been made to some existing vocabulary notes. For more challenging words, Chinese translations are also provided to meet the needs of postgraduate students at different levels. Key points, difficulties, and related background knowledge in the texts are explained in simple English, or given in English-Chinese bilingual form, with Chinese translations provided for some. The reading comprehension exercises after each text aim to test students' understanding of the main ideas, key content, and details of the texts, as well as to cultivate their ability to comprehend texts at the discourse level and master reading skills such as summarizing main ideas, guessing words from context, anticipating, inferring, and drawing conclusions. A vocabulary list is provided at the end of the book, with each entry including spelling, phonetic symbols, Chinese definitions, and word levels. This book also includes a teacher's reference book, which contains further annotations on the texts, answers to reading comprehension questions, and reference translations for each lesson.