Super. Graded English-Chinese Reading Materials. Beginner: Comprehensive Section

Author: Dong Qiming
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The "Super·Graded and Categorized·Bilingual Reading Materials·Beginner" series is designed for senior high school students, first-year college 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 and Technology," "Literature and Arts," "Economy and Law," and "Comprehensive." It strives to cover all vocabulary, language points, knowledge points, grammatical phenomena, and themes found in college entrance examination English reading comprehension passages.
The content of "Science and Technology" involves 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 content of "Literature and Arts" includes introductions to writers, artists, novelists, and poets and their works, as well as interesting anecdotes and classic stories in various fields like film, dance, music, fashion, clothing, and architecture. It also features humorous fables, strange events, and stories.
The content of "Economy and Law" covers international finance, the global 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 content of "Comprehensive" includes 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, a reference translation, 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.