Essential English Vocabulary Handbook for the Gaokao: Definitions, Distinctions, Usage, Sentence Patterns, Collocations, Idiomatic Expressions, Key Notes

Author: Zhuang Zhixing, Zhuang Xuesong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book avoids three obvious shortcomings of similar books: first, it is incomplete; second, it is irrelevant; and third, it fails to distinguish between primary and secondary content. This book achieves the following: based on the requirements of the secondary school English teaching syllabus and the college entrance examination syllabus, as well as the needs of students preparing for the exam, it accurately controls the scope of vocabulary, ensuring that all necessary words are included and unnecessary ones are excluded. It also clearly indicates three levels of vocabulary, providing detailed explanations for key words and brief coverage for general ones. Additionally, each entry is marked with the book and lesson in which the word first appears in the textbook, making it convenient for readers to look up information at any time. The book offers comprehensive explanations of word usage and related grammar, idioms, and other aspects. This includes: countable and uncountable nouns, singular and plural forms, the use or omission of articles, collocations with prepositions and verbs, verb tenses, voices, moods, sentence patterns, collocations with nouns and prepositions, subject-verb agreement; the use of adjectives as attributive and predicative, collocations with nouns and prepositions, word order issues, inversion, and other important linguistic points. After each example sentence, special reminders and guidance are provided for key language points, such as: [Note idioms], [Note sentence patterns], [Note collocations], [Note what should not be said, what should be said], and so on.