New Horizons College English -- Teaching Material 1

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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book has the following characteristics:
1. Comprehensive and concise content. The selection of content in this book follows the following criteria: Content that is not very helpful for improving readers' English ability, and content that is not required to be tested in CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examinations is omitted. Conversely, content that may be tested in CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examinations is explained as much as possible.
2. Closely integrated with CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examinations. While pursuing quality education, it does not forget examination-oriented education. Features of the book:
(1) Learning objectives and key points: Summarize the key knowledge and skills to be mastered in this unit in a concise and clear tabular form. Readers should have a general understanding and grasp of the content and key points of this unit before studying it.
(2) Level self-assessment – CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examination questions related to this unit: All CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examination questions that have tested vocabulary related to this unit in recent ten years are compiled. The purpose is to allow students to conduct a self-assessment before formally entering the unit study, analyze their progress and weak areas.
(3) Cultural background: This part of the content is almost present in all similar books. What makes this book different from others is (1) only selecting cultural background knowledge of English-speaking countries that ordinary students are not very familiar with but should understand. (2) The introductions in this book are in both Chinese and English, while most other books use only Chinese or only English.
(4) Text structure analysis: This part mainly analyzes the overall structure of each unit's text, explores the author's writing approach, and aims to improve readers' reading comprehension ability and guide them to learn writing techniques. The guiding ideology for writing this part is: When learning an article, it is not only necessary to expand vocabulary and master the grammatical phenomena it contains, but also to pay attention to improving reading and writing skills.
(5) Difficult sentences and grammar structure analysis: This part is present in all similar books, but our explanation focuses more on the combination with exams, with an emphasis on the examination points of various English exams. The examples and questions used are almost all from past CET-4/6, postgraduate entrance examinations, and TOEFL tests.
(6) Exam treasure box: Helps readers familiarize themselves with the content of CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examinations, and cultivate exam-taking skills.
(7) Real exam simulation: Collects and explains the latest CET-4/6 and postgraduate entrance examination questions. The purpose is still to help readers improve their exam-taking skills.