New College English Test Band 4 Training: Reading Practice Book

Author: Wang Ming, Sun Shuling
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is divided into four main parts in its itemized training. The first part is "Fast Reading Comprehension," consisting of 20 passages. It primarily trains candidates in "applying logical relationships and skimming techniques to locate information points." The second part is "Careful Reading Comprehension," where the editors selected 20 passages targeting "lexical understanding at the text level (Banked Cloze)." It mainly trains candidates in "skimming the entire text, grasping the main idea, and categorizing parts of speech." In this section, the editors provide the main idea, answers, and explanations for each passage. The third part is "General Reading Comprehension," featuring 20 passages. Each passage includes four components: "Main Idea of the Article," "Language Point Notes," "Complex Sentence Analysis," and "Answers and Detailed Explanations." This section offers a rich selection of materials, with science, history, and general knowledge articles forming the bulk. Reading such articles can help students compensate for their lack of background knowledge and lay a foundation for effective reading. Meanwhile, the "Language Explanations" effectively assist students in expanding their vocabulary, enabling them to decode automatically and fully understand the meaning of the texts. The "Complex Sentence Analysis" column breaks down the structure of long and difficult sentences in each passage, creating conditions for solving related questions. The most distinctive feature of this section is the "Answers and Detailed Explanations" part. After each passage, not only are the answers provided, but in-depth analyses of the reasons behind the answers are also included, aiming to help readers understand essential reading techniques and the keys to solving problems. The fourth part is "Classic Review." In the "Classic Review" section, the authors selected representative articles from past CET-4 exams that effectively train related reading skills for analysis. Each passage is accompanied by answers and detailed explanations, designed to help readers experience and familiarize themselves with CET-4 reading levels. At the same time, the "Language Point Notes" and "Complex Sentence Analysis" sections from the third part are omitted, allowing readers to fully exercise their initiative, practice sentence analysis techniques learned from the first 20 passages, and become familiar with the relevant vocabulary and phrases learned earlier.