College English - Intensive Reading (6)

Author: Li Yinhua, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is the sixth volume of the "College English" series textbook, designed for students taking the College English Test Band 6. All the texts in this volume are original selections with minor edits in some places. The selection process focused on the interest, knowledge, and thought-provoking nature of the articles. The book still consists of ten units, suitable for use over one semester. The content layout of each unit is similar to the previous volumes but with some modifications. The general principle is to strengthen comprehensive exercises based on the knowledge learned in the previous volumes. The annotations for the texts primarily introduce relevant background knowledge, with explanations for some difficult phrases and sentences for students to refer to during previewing. Each lesson includes comprehension questions and discussion topics. The vocabulary exercises in this volume are divided into two parts: practicing the active usage of words in the texts and practicing phrasal verbs. The latter follows the same approach as the fifth volume, where two common verbs are selected for each lesson, and the phrasal verbs derived from these verbs are summarized, introduced in key points, and practiced. To cultivate students' comprehensive language application skills, this volume retains cloze exercises (CLOZE) and error correction exercises for longer passages. These exercises have a certain level of difficulty and require appropriate guidance and inspiration from the teacher. This volume also introduces sentence and passage translation exercises from Chinese to English. The passage translation exercises are more challenging and require students to have a solid grasp of common words, phrases, and sentence patterns from the texts. In the reading exercises section, each unit is accompanied by a reading material with content similar to the texts, along with several comprehension questions. The newly added science and technology reading articles are primarily for self-study but can also be selected by teachers as needed. The writing exercises in this volume focus on training students in writing abstracts, writing essays based on charts and graphs, and writing daily letters. The two new self-assessment tests are placed after the fifth and tenth units, respectively, to help students consolidate their learning. At the end of the book, reference answers are provided.