2007 Graduate Entrance Exam English Reading Comprehension: 100 Close Reading Passages (New Oriental Graduate Entrance Exam English Training Materials)

Author: Liu Minggao Li
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Features: In this book, the author suggests using the "break it down into smaller parts" method to memorize English vocabulary during postgraduate entrance exam preparation. It is not recommended to memorize 100 or even hundreds of words in a day, as this not only wastes valuable time but also yields poor results with a high forgetting rate. If you plan to memorize 20 words a day, you can distribute these 20 words across three different time slots in a day for memorization. Memorize 6 words upon waking up, 6 after lunch, and 8 before going to sleep. This way, it won’t interfere with other academic tasks. Repeat this process the next day. In fact, the vocabulary required for postgraduate entrance exams is mostly high school-level words, plus less than 800 words from the CET-4 and CET-6 exams. Therefore, you can easily memorize them quickly. However, during the memorization process, it is essential to review promptly. This means reviewing the words memorized the previous day before memorizing new words on the second day, and reviewing the words from the previous two days before memorizing new words on the third day, and so on. By the 30th day, you will have memorized the words for 30 days once and reviewed them 29 times, making it extremely difficult to forget them. This vocabulary memorization method not only won’t affect your daily work and studies but also ensures more lasting retention.
During postgraduate entrance exam preparation, which phrases should you review? The main sources for reviewing phrases are two parts: first, phrases encountered in the reading comprehension section of past exam papers, and second, phrases summarized in the cloze test analysis section of the annual exam syllabus. In the postgraduate entrance exam English test, long sentences are the main obstacle to understanding passages and doing well in translation. To understand such complex sentences, you cannot read them word by word like normal reading. Instead, you should use the "peeling an onion" sentence structure analysis method, which is often used subconsciously by native English speakers. The steps are as follows: First, determine how many "onions" (clauses) are in the sentence. Second, "peel the skin" (break down each clause). Third, translate each layer of the "onion’s skin" (each clause) into Chinese. Fourth, combine the multiple simple Chinese sentences into a long Chinese sentence.