High School English Extracurricular Reading 365 Articles. Grade 10

Author: Xu Qifu
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Publishing Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Wang Maimai Book Brand, which originated in the 1980s. In 1987, a book titled The Spy Catcher by a former British MI5 intelligence officer caused a sensation in Western society, and China Central Television (CCTV) also reported on it in the News Broadcast. As a result, the domestic publishing industry was inspired, scholars and translators worked tirelessly to search for publishing information; relevant publishers did their utmost to seize publishing opportunities. However, it was the unknown Wang Maimai who emerged victorious from the crowd, signing a contract with Yangtze Literature and Art Publishing House. Making his debut, he achieved a resounding success, with the first edition of his translation of The Spy Catcher selling nearly 100,000 copies. Once the victory was secured, it was unstoppable. In the following years, Wang Maimai continued to deliver success with his translations of works such as Royal Sisters, Midnight Thoughts, Nancy Reagan's Memoirs, and The Unpublished Works of Mark Twain, each becoming bestsellers. After 1990, due to teaching commitments, Wang Maimai began to compile college English textbooks and teaching materials for the CET-4 and CET-6 exams. From then on, small and large bookstores near universities across the country frequently introduced new titles in Wang Maimai's English series. It was as if overnight, a spring breeze swept across the land, with a thousand trees and ten thousand blossoms blooming. In the domestic college English teaching materials market, Wang Maimai's English series stood alone for years, truly leading the trend for over a decade. Today, the Wang Maimai English series has hundreds of titles, covering subjects from middle school to college and postgraduate entrance exams. Its brand has gained increasing popularity among readers due to its exceptionally clear explanations of textbook difficulties and its accurate grasp of exam trends. Surveys show that students from many universities and high schools across the country own Wang Maimai brand books, with almost every student having at least one, demonstrating the brand's immense popularity. The Ministry of Education's English Curriculum Standards require that, in addition to textbooks, students accumulate a total of over 360,000 words in extracurricular reading. 365 Middle School English Extracurricular Readings, a set of 6 books for students from 7th to 12th grade, is designed to meet this requirement. It has the following features:
1. Innovative Layout: Time as the vertical axis, with one reading passage per day; reading as the horizontal axis, integrating knowledge and culture to create a new learning space in English, helping readers naturally develop the habit of English reading.
2. Rich Content: The passages are abundant in information, offering a depth of knowledge and interest that general reading materials often lack. They combine knowledge, fun, readability, and systematicity, catering to different readers' needs for advanced, selective, and repeated reading.
3. Strong Targeting: Each reading passage is accompanied by comprehension questions to test your understanding, expression prompts to share your insights, and annotations to help you grasp the text accurately and improve your skills. Additionally, there are daily proverbs and quotes to cultivate readers' comprehensive ability to learn and use English, as well as to provide supplementary reading material for different levels and needs.