Graduate English Extensive Reading Course (Revised Edition)

Author: Lu You Shan
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: The texts in this book are carefully selected from more than 30 books, newspapers, and magazines published in recent years in the UK and the US, encompassing hundreds of articles. The texts reflect global hot issues and the latest technological achievements and developments in various fields, offering strong knowledge and entertainment value. The topics are diverse, covering a wide range of genres, and the content involves fields such as science and engineering, social sciences, agriculture and forestry, finance and economics, and medicine, with extensive vocabulary coverage. The average length of each text is approximately 1,300 words, and the word count is indicated at the end of each text to facilitate reading speed assessment. For self-study convenience, the vocabulary notes for each lesson have been increased by about 50%, and revisions to the original vocabulary notes have been made. More challenging words are also provided with Chinese translations to cater to the needs of graduate students at different levels. Key points, difficulties, and relevant background knowledge in the texts are annotated in simple English or provided with bilingual explanations (English-Chinese), with some words given in Chinese translation. The post-reading comprehension exercises are designed to test students' understanding of the central ideas, main content, and details of the texts, as well as to develop their ability to comprehend texts at the discourse level and master reading skills such as summarizing main ideas, guessing meanings from context, anticipating, reasoning, and inferring. A vocabulary table is included at the end of the book, with each entry featuring spelling, phonetic transcription, Chinese definition, and word level. This book also comes with a teacher's reference book containing further annotations on the texts, answers to reading comprehension questions, and reference translations for each lesson.