Graduate English Course: Intensive Reading (Part 2)

Author: Wu Yidian
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is a reading tutorial, with texts selected from authentic English and American sources. Each text is approximately 1,800 words long. The selections cover a wide range of topics and styles, are highly readable, and reflect contemporary themes. The sentences are somewhat challenging, making them suitable for teachers' explanations and students' discussions. The book features a rich vocabulary with high recurrence rates of common words, and its exercises are systematic and practical. The exercise sections include: reading comprehension, vocabulary and phrases, sentence rewriting, complete fill-in-the-blanks, error correction, Chinese-English translation, root word fill-in-the-blanks, and practical writing. To enhance students' understanding of English word roots and help them expand their vocabulary effectively and broadly, the book includes an "ETYMOLOGY" (Etymology) section. The practical writing exercises introduce common real-life topics and provide model answers for students to refer to and emulate. The supplementary exercises for this book aim to deepen students' comprehension of the texts and improve their basic language skills and application abilities, ultimately achieving the teaching objectives outlined in the "Outline," which is to "cultivate students' relatively proficient reading skills, certain writing and translation abilities, and fundamental listening and speaking skills." Additionally, each lesson is accompanied by thought-provoking proverbs and aphorisms or entertaining riddles and word puzzles.