2008 Spark Postgraduate Entrance Exam English Reading Comprehension 200 Passages (Crushing One by One 3rd Edition)

Author: Ma Degao, Ma Maoxiang (editors)
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: Spark English addresses the urgent needs of candidates, thinking about what candidates think. Based on carefully integrating and synthesizing the advice and experience of renowned postgraduate entrance exam English tutors and multiple high-scoring candidates, while fully considering the review characteristics, psychology, and needs of postgraduate entrance exam students, it creatively and avant-gardeedly planned and compiled this unique book in the current market, titled "200 Reading Comprehension Passages for Postgraduate Entrance Exam," with our meticulous care, our comprehensive attention, and our scientific methods, bringing immediate and surprising results to candidates' reading review. The writing and explanations of this book fully incorporate and reflect the following features:
Carefully Selected Materials, Close to the Syllabus. All passages in this book are carefully selected by teachers from well-known universities from their daily teaching materials. In terms of length and ( means genre or theme in this context), they embody the characteristics of past exam questions: diverse selection, touching on hot topics, and containing a similar proportion of out-of-syllabus words and complex sentences as the actual exam. Especially, it has added the new question types introduced in the new postgraduate entrance exam syllabus, making the book fully compliant with the syllabus requirements and helping candidates familiarize themselves with the exam format.
Separate Booklets, Tackling Each Section Individually. The 200 passages are divided into 33 units according to the model of postgraduate entrance exam reading comprehension questions. Every 10–12 units are combined into one booklet, totaling three booklets. This is convenient for carrying and allows candidates to conduct targeted intensive training, breaking down the originally daunting reading exercises into smaller parts, thereby boosting candidates' confidence and steady improvement. Moreover, the difficulty levels of all questions are reasonably matched, helping candidates gradually enhance their reading and exam-taking skills.
Linked Explanations, Directly Targeting Key Points. All passages and questions in this book are thoroughly analyzed and expertly commented on by exam experts. The "Linked Explanations" use visual, interconnected diagrams to provide intuitive analysis of each unit's reading passage, making complex concepts easy to grasp and helping candidates identify the true source of answers, enabling them to approach questions with confidence. The "Reading Highlights" help clarify the structure of the passages, while the "Answer Explanations" are designed from the candidate's perspective, guiding them to grasp the reasoning behind answers and develop correct problem-solving thinking. The "Full Text Translation" provides the complete Chinese translation of all translation questions, greatly aiding in accurate expression, and the subsequent "Translation Analysis" offers more detailed linguistic guidance.
Categorized Index, Multi-functional Use. This book introduces a unique "Multi-functional Classified Index," providing detailed subject, genre, and difficulty indexes for all 200 passages, allowing candidates to selectively focus on specific types of reading materials, making the book highly versatile and significantly enhancing its utility.
Selected Difficult Sentences, Systematic Overcoming. This book extracts 1–4 complex sentences from each reading comprehension passage and visually deconstructs their challenging elements. Additionally, beyond the three reading booklets, this book includes a bonus "100 Examples of Difficult Sentence Explanations," compiling over 100 difficult sentences from actual exam questions and typical examples, analyzing and explaining their grammar and syntax, providing reference translations, and guiding candidates to overcome the challenge of complex sentences.
Key Vocabulary, Concentrated Overcoming. At the end of the analysis for each passage, this book includes a "Core Vocabulary" section, covering functional and out-of-syllabus words, providing definitions and explanations for key and challenging vocabulary. In response to requests from readers, it also includes phonetic transcriptions, helping candidates learn vocabulary in context and effortlessly conquer difficult vocabulary.