2007 Graduate Entrance Exam English Vocabulary Spark-style Smart Memorization and Rapid Memorization

Author: Ma Degao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book closely follows the latest syllabus and has undergone substantial revisions. It further refines the Spark Memory Method, fully leveraging its unique advantages to help readers achieve outstanding and results. It comprehensively includes authentic example sentences, enhancing contextual understanding. Original illustrations and tables have been supplemented and updated, making the book more visually appealing and engaging. It is particularly emphasized that this book not only fully covers all vocabulary in the syllabus but also includes, in an appendix, all out-of-syllabus words that appeared in the past 10 years of postgraduate entrance exam papers, enabling you to prepare solidly and improve comprehensively. Perseverance + Correct Methods = Success. The postgraduate entrance exam has seen a dramatic increase in participants, with competition becoming increasingly fierce. With more courses and tight schedules, to succeed in such intense competition, it depends on whether you adopt the right learning methods while studying authoritative materials day and night. We provide a truly clever and effective memory method, saving you a significant amount of time and effort to achieve the best results with the least cost. The five key features of this book are:
1. Unique Word List Division – Focus on learning only the words you don’t know from the exam syllabus. The words from the exam syllabus are highlighted in color in the book, with their definitions underlined. Familiar words with unfamiliar meanings are listed separately within each unit. Words that differ between the postgraduate exam and CET-4 are marked with a ▲, while those differing between the postgraduate exam and CET-6 are marked with a △. Out-of-syllabus words are marked with a ※.
2. Efficient Contextual Memory – Only in context can you better remember and master words. Dead words, alive sentences. This book selects tens of millions of authentic example sentences from past postgraduate exam papers and intersperses them under key entries, allowing you to deeply understand and experience vocabulary usage, meaning, and improve reading skills simultaneously in real, authoritative practical contexts.
3. Selected Long and Complex Example Sentences – Learn while reading, achieving dual breakthroughs in vocabulary and reading. Vocabulary is the foundation, and reading comprehension is the key. Apart from unfamiliar words, long and complex sentences are the biggest challenge for candidates in reading. Therefore, this book carefully selects long and complex sentences from past postgraduate exam papers and the latest English and American news and periodicals. These examples not only deepen the understanding and memory of words in context but also improve reading comprehension and translation skills. Learning while reading and reading while learning achieve dual breakthroughs in vocabulary and reading.
4. Practical Appendix Collection – Everything you need and can use is here. The appendices include out-of-syllabus words from the past 10 years of postgraduate exam papers, categorized reading vocabulary from the past 10 years of postgraduate exam papers, word-guessing techniques, common prefixes and suffixes, common roots, common abbreviations, and writing keywords, covering all other vocabulary-related issues in the exam to fully meet the needs of readers in their review.
5. Synchronized Audio Tracks – Learn while listening, achieving dual improvement in vocabulary and listening. Psychological research shows that 25% of memory comes from vision, 15% from hearing, and combining the two can achieve 65% of the effect. Therefore, we have recorded audio tracks of the words in this book, read by English and American experts, allowing you to combine learning and listening to achieve the best memory effect.