Gaokao English Essential Vocabulary Explained

Author: Liu Shangfu, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book fully considers the learning characteristics of Chinese students and their needs for the college entrance examination. It includes all vocabulary and phrases from the textbooks, with approximately 4,500 entries and over 1,400 phrases. It also includes some vocabulary that may appear in reading materials or college entrance examination papers. The book strives to be concise, novel, practical, and highlights key points with comprehensive functionality. Each entry not only provides pronunciation, part of speech, and definitions but also emphasizes the usage through accurate and standardized example sentences. Additionally, based on the specific circumstances of each entry, it offers mnemonic techniques, synonyms, antonyms, commonly confused words, related terms, usage notes, comparisons, phrases, and exam questions. This helps students grasp the usage of words in the shortest time possible and gain a deep understanding and firm memory of the vocabulary through multi-dimensional and multi-level analysis and comparison. As a result, they can achieve outstanding results in both regular studies and the college entrance examination. Furthermore, the book selects many typical college entrance examination questions from recent years to address the current realities of English learning among Chinese students and the evolving needs of the college entrance examination, helping students overcome key and challenging areas in both regular studies and the exam.