2006 Graduate Entrance Exam English Reading New Type Questions Special Training

Author: Mao Fenghua
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The main content and characteristics of this book are as follows:
1. Scientific and Practical. This book elaborates on the features and solving patterns of the sentence completion type (also known as cloze test) in the reading section of postgraduate entrance exams in detail. By revealing the thinking patterns, narrative modes, logical relationships, hierarchical structures, and cohesive devices of English articles, it lays a solid linguistic foundation for solving sentence completion questions. Subsequently, it analyzes the characteristics of this type of question in sample exam papers, introduces solving strategies and techniques, and finally briefly introduces the basic skills for interpreting long sentences, especially in isolated conditions for interpreting options, enabling candidates to grasp the components, structures, and main ideas of sentences in a short time and place them appropriately.
2. Well-structured. While introducing methods and techniques, this book provides a large number of exercises for candidates to practice. The 50 practice questions in the book are divided into three parts—basic (10), intermediate (20), and advanced (20)—based on the difficulty level of the articles, allowing candidates to systematically strengthen their training and review in a progressive manner.
3. Broad Content. The articles in this book are selected from foreign newspapers, magazines, books, and exam papers, featuring rich, timely, and diverse content with standardized language and a certain level of difficulty. This helps candidates broaden their horizons while improving their abilities, ultimately leading to better performance. The selected articles cover various genres, including narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative texts, to enhance candidates' analytical and problem-solving skills for different types of passages.
4. Detailed Explanations. This book not only provides answers to each question but also offers in-depth analysis of the solutions, which helps candidates grasp the perspectives, methods, and techniques for answering questions, reinforcing their learning from the first part. Additionally, the book provides full translations of each article and translations of distractors, enabling candidates to master the methods for analyzing complex sentence structures and translation techniques. This also serves to verify their understanding of the passages and improve their comprehensive language comprehension skills.