Basic Training for IELTS Reading Success

Author: The IELTS R&D Team of New Oriental Education & Technology Group
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: On the journey of life, people always hope for more choices and more opportunities to change their fate, making their lives more colorful and diverse. After 2000, Chinese students had more options. With China's development, some families became wealthier and could afford to study abroad. While the U.S. stubbornly believed that Chinese students were too poor to pay tuition fees, their neighboring countries like the UK, Australia, and others, like hunting dogs, keenly sniffed out the passion of Chinese students for studying abroad and the business opportunities within it, beginning to admit a large number of Chinese students to study in their countries. Faced with the sudden emergence of numerous choices, Chinese students were overwhelmed and rushed out in large numbers. The IELTS, the language proficiency test for Commonwealth countries corresponding to TOEFL, became another important exam that Chinese students had to take to study abroad. When Americans were satisfied with their own established standards and insisted that TOEFL was the best language testing system in the world, IELTS took a more practical direction, emphasizing the importance of students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in language testing. When Americans realized their mistakes and began to reform the TOEFL exam, tens of thousands of Chinese students had already gone to study in Commonwealth countries. We hope that Chinese students do not lose themselves in their choices and do not choose for the sake of choosing. New Oriental is also working hard for the ideals that it cannot let go of, which is to help Chinese students on their journey forward, becoming stepping stones or accelerators to help them overcome life's obstacles. The publication of this IELTS book is a small proof of our efforts. Perhaps it is not the best IELTS book, but it has been infused with the full dedication of New Oriental's IELTS teachers and incorporates nearly a decade of their teaching experience. These dedication and experience can be read between the lines of the entire book.