Master's Degree English Textbook Practice Book (Lower)

Author: Yu Jingxian, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This workbook is designed for the supplementary use of the "Educational Master's English Course (Volume 2)" and is intended for a wide range of students and self-learners using the course. The workbook consists of ten units, each including:
1. Listening Practice: Contains two parts—listening comprehension and listening appreciation—along with original listening materials, answers, and detailed explanations.
2. Vocabulary Exercises: Provides contextualized exercises in multiple-choice format to help students review and reinforce learned vocabulary, with answer explanations for reference.
3. Reading Comprehension: Includes four richly themed English short passages, each accompanied by thoughtfully designed comprehension questions to test students' ability to quickly scan and make judgments based on understanding. The passages are also provided with Chinese translations and answer explanations.
4. Reading Appreciation: Features entertaining reading materials and humorous English content to enhance reading interest.
5. Translation Skills Training: Introduces practical translation techniques, such as selecting appropriate words by adhering to translation principles, semantic extension and connotation/brevity methods, addition and omission techniques, part-of-speech conversion, voice conversion, and long-sentence segmentation. Additionally, it includes relevant exercises and answers to help students apply these techniques and improve their translation proficiency.
Through the above listening, reading, and translation training, students can enhance their comprehensive English proficiency in a short period.