Super. Graded and Categorized English Reading Materials. Beginner: Popular Science Section

Author: Dong Qiming
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The "Super·Graded & Categorized Bilingual Reading Series·Beginner" is a bilingual reading series designed for senior high school students, first-year university students, and English self-learners with equivalent English proficiency. It aims to improve the English reading skills of young readers, broaden their knowledge, expand their vocabulary, and prepare them for the college entrance examination and English proficiency tests. This series consists of four volumes: "Science & Technology," "Literature & Arts," "Economy & Law," and "Comprehensive," striving to cover all vocabulary, language points, knowledge points, grammatical phenomena, and themes found in college entrance examination English reading comprehension passages.
The content of the "Science & Technology" volume covers new developments in various fields such as the Internet, the universe, animals, plants, humans, medicine, health, ecology, the environment, household appliances, cloning, psychology, and spirituality.
The "Literature & Arts" volume includes introductions to writers, artists, novelists, and poets and their works, as well as interesting anecdotes and classic stories from various fields like film, dance, music, fashion, clothing, and architecture. It also features humorous fables, strange events, and stories.
The "Economy & Law" volume covers topics such as international finance, the world economy, economic system reforms, juvenile delinquency, corruption, counter-terrorism, the judicial system, murder, robbery, credit card fraud, inflation, money, contracts, taxes, and import/export trade.
The "Comprehensive" volume includes content on politics, military affairs, education, sports, transportation, tourism, geography, as well as customs, festivals, marriage customs, dietary habits, and study methods of different countries.
Each volume contains 100 lessons, with each lesson typically ranging from 300 to 450 words. To facilitate learning, each lesson is followed by annotations, exercises, reference translations, and answers to the exercises. Some lessons are also accompanied by illustrations related to the content, helping readers reinforce their understanding in a relaxed and enjoyable way.
The 21st century is an era full of challenges, particularly requiring young people to possess broad knowledge, the ability to understand things, flexibility in language use, and sensitivity to trends. It is precisely to meet these needs that we present this series to readers. We hope it can help readers achieve comprehensive improvement while acquiring English knowledge. Let English learning become a window to mastering knowledge.