Peak English Reading -- Junior High School Version

Author: Zhang Tanxia
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Publishing Date: 2001-06-01
Features: The first ever color-illustrated English reading tool book in China, with innovative and culturally relevant material close to the atmosphere of British and American culture; an essential guide for exam preparation and score improvement; vibrant color layout and innovative and lively design! This book is written by experienced teachers from prestigious schools based on the latest high school curriculum, featuring reading passages that cover British and American holidays, language, animals, society, culture, art, and personalities, providing a comprehensive exposure to Western culture and keeping it close to daily life, avoiding the rigidness and awkwardness of "Chinese English." The book is divided into twelve units, each combining reading content with detailed explanations of reading techniques to make learning more effective.
This book adopts a four-color layout with bold and innovative design, highlighting key points; the content is rich and vivid, breaking away from traditional domestic reading learning models and progressing step-by-step, accompanied by exquisite illustrations, making academic learning easy to grasp. In this new reading mode training, it truly achieves the goal of "learning through fun" and achieving high scores. This book is a "reading breakthrough" tool book published to meet the high-scoring requirements of high school students in English exams. Which part of the English exam most significantly influences scores? Among listening, speaking, reading, and writing, which is the key to unlocking the others? What is the most effective way for English learners to minimize the influence of their native language and enhance their linguistic sense? The answer is: reading, reading, and more reading. Then, how to improve reading skills and techniques becomes an urgent issue to address.
Based on this, the motivation for writing this book is as follows: 1. After the new exam syllabus was introduced, higher requirements were placed on reading, and relying solely on textbook content is far from sufficient. 2. The English books available in the market for middle school students are mostly question collections, with varying quality. Even if specialized reading books exist, most simply list passages, leaving readers to mechanical tasks, with few translations and explanations, lacking systematic guidance in English reading skills, the cultivation of abilities, and the establishment of reading concepts.
This book has the following features: 1. It systematically organizes, summarizes, and condenses reading techniques, enabling readers to clearly understand the methods they use, avoiding unnecessary and repetitive reading. 2. This book introduces internationally recognized and newly popular reading concepts and techniques, which are simple, quick, and effective. 3. The passages are selected from English-language newspapers, magazines, and books, with broad and practical content. 4. It integrates speaking, reading, and writing, categorizing chapters in an innovative and modern way. The reading content is extensive, covering topics such as clothing, animals, inventions, personalities, natural environments, sports, and food, providing abundant resources for listening and speaking while laying a solid foundation for writing. 5. Considering that reading itself can be a monotonous language activity, readers often lose interest and efficiency as reading time increases. To address this, the book employs scientific layout design to keep readers engaged, continuously placing them in a state of excitement to maximize learning efficiency. It strictly adheres to the principle that form must serve content.