Challenge CET-4 710: New Writing and Translation Topics

Author: Jing Shenghua, Gao Shengbing
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts—writing and translation—with their respective characteristics and main contents as follows:
Writing Section:
- Emphasis on paragraph writing.
- Introduces fundamental writing knowledge.
- Comprehensive and practical.
- Systematically covers writing methods and problem-solving strategies for different genres and assignment types, broadly encompassing the writing topics in recent CET-4 and CET-6 exams.
- Additionally, it explains common practical writing formats.
- Based on the writing formats and topics of recent CET-4 exams, the analysis and introduction of current hot topics are both forward-looking and targeted.
- The provided model essays help students improve their sensitivity to exam writing formats and accuracy in topic analysis.
- Exercises are well-chosen. Each chapter includes exercises, and the appendix provides reference answers to all exercises.
Translation Section:
- Chinese-to-English translation is a new type of question for CET-4.
- This type is mainly divided into two categories: sentence translation and passage translation.
- Sentence translation refers to translating a complete Chinese sentence into English.
- Passage translation refers to translating paragraphs or texts such as letters, product descriptions, etc., into English.
To some extent, this book can be considered a comprehensive practical writing and translation textbook for college English. It is of practical value for undergraduate and graduate students, candidates for various overseas programs, English test-takers seeking career advancement, and all English enthusiasts. We particularly hope this book can contribute to improving the current state of college English teaching.