2008 postgraduate entrance examination English reading comprehension intensive reading 100 passages

Author: Yin Jiankun
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: This book selects articles from The Economist, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and TIME according to the requirements and difficulty of the reading Part A in the postgraduate entrance exam English syllabus. The exercises after each article clearly indicate which year's postgraduate entrance exam English test question they mimic, making this book highly targeted. Additionally, it includes sections such as "Text Analysis," "Vocabulary Notes," "Difficult Sentence Breakdown," "Question Analysis," and "Reference Translation," explaining the core vocabulary, difficult sentences, and article structure. This helps candidates achieve a comprehensive understanding of the text, truly improving their reading ability... In this book, the author suggests using the "break it down into smaller parts" method to memorize English words during postgraduate entrance exam preparation. It is not recommended to memorize 100 or even hundreds of words in a day, as this wastes valuable time and yields minimal results with a high forgetting rate. If you plan to memorize 20 words a day, you can distribute them across three different time slots in a day: 6 in the morning upon waking, 6 after lunch, and 8 before going to sleep. This way, it won’t interfere with other academic tasks. The next day, you can repeat this process. In fact, the vocabulary required for the postgraduate entrance exam English is mostly high school-level words, plus less than 800 words from the CET-4 and CET-6. Therefore, you can easily memorize them quickly. However, during memorization, it is essential to review promptly. For example, before memorizing new words on the second day, you must review the words from the previous day, and before memorizing new words on the third day, you must review the words from the previous two days. This way, by the 30th day, you will have memorized the words for 30 days but reviewed them 29 times, making it extremely difficult to forget. This vocabulary memorization method not only won’t affect your daily work or studies but also ensures more lasting retention.
During postgraduate entrance exam preparation, which phrases should you review? The main sources for the phrases you should focus on are two parts: one is the phrases encountered in the reading comprehension section of past exam papers, and the other is the phrases summarized in the cloze test analysis section of the annual exam syllabus.
In the postgraduate entrance exam English process, long and complex sentences are the main obstacles to understanding the text and doing well in translation. To understand such sentences, you cannot read them word by word as with normal reading. Instead, you should use the "peeling an onion" sentence structure analysis method, which is often used subconsciously by native English speakers. The steps are as follows: First, determine how many "onions" (clauses) the sentence has. Second, "peel the skin" of each "onion" (clause). Third, translate each layer of the "onion's" skin into Chinese. Fourth, combine the simple Chinese sentences into a longer Chinese sentence.
Each article in this book clearly indicates which past exam question the exercises mimic.