2008 Sparkling Postgraduate Entrance Exam English Reading Selection 120 Passages (MP3)

Author: Ma Degao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: Following the characteristics of postgraduate entrance exam reading, based on the efforts of expert authors, the article selection in this book fully ensures timeliness and typicality, striving to make every article suitable for intensive reading and truly highlighting the concept of "carefully selected." The selected articles are mostly from recent foreign newspapers, magazines, and books, covering a wide range of topics and touching on hot issues. The content of out-of-scope words and complex sentences is close to the actual exam. The structure of the article combinations is completely consistent with the latest postgraduate entrance exam syllabus. Each unit includes 4 standard reading passages (Part A), 1 matching selection (Part B), and 1 translation passage (Part C), totaling 6 articles. The overall difficulty of the questions is close to or slightly higher than the actual exam, which is very beneficial for candidates to familiarize themselves with the exam format.
British reading articles in the postgraduate entrance exam are often long and difficult, causing many candidates to feel confused after reading and not know what to do when answering questions. In response to the strong demand of candidates, this book provides detailed and accurate full-text translations for all 120 selected articles, aiming to help candidates better understand the structure, logical layers, and writing characteristics of the articles. This is also the best way for candidates to finally test their comprehension and clarify their problem-solving after intensive reading.
While maintaining the exam format (the triple structure of Part A, Part B, and Part C), the unit settings of this book are organized thematically according to the type of articles, meaning that all articles in a unit belong to the same genre. This allows candidates to focus on practicing the same type of articles, achieving the goal of intensive practice and deepened understanding. Additionally, this book innovatively provides a multi-functional classification index for the 120 articles, categorized by genre and difficulty. Candidates can use the index to break the natural structure of the book and conduct simulated postgraduate entrance exam English reading practice with multiple themes, genres, and difficulty levels, selecting different types of articles for concentrated and specialized training.