English Speed Reading: First Grade

Author: Lian Xian
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Publish Date: 2006-10-31
Features: This book is a "National Key Textbook for the 9th Five-Year Plan in General Higher Education" funded by the Ministry of Education, and it is also included in the "CAS Graduate Teaching Series." Written by experienced professors from the Foreign Language Teaching Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate University based on years of teaching experience, it is the crystallization of the hard work of several generations of teachers. The 60 short passages selected in the book are mostly excerpted from contemporary English original books and periodicals, covering a wide range of topics and being highly readable. Each passage is followed by reading comprehension questions. At the end of the book, there are a speed test table, an accuracy rate test table, a test record table, and a detachable answer key. This book is suitable for teaching English to non-English major master's students, as well as for reference books for undergraduate students of various disciplines in universities to improve their English skills.