2008 Graduate Entrance Exam English Reading Selection 120 Passages (Includes Reading Software)

Author: Ma Degao
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: Following the characteristics of postgraduate entrance exam reading comprehension, 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 "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 closely matches the actual exam. The structure of the article combinations aligns completely 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, making it very beneficial for candidates to familiarize themselves with the exam format.
The British reading passages in postgraduate entrance exams are often long and difficult, causing many candidates to feel confused after reading and struggle to understand the questions. In response to the strong demand from candidates, this book provides detailed and accurate full-text translations for all 120 selected articles. The aim is to help candidates gain a more precise and thorough understanding of the article's structure, logical flow, and writing style. This is also the best way for candidates to test their comprehension and clarify their problem-solving approach after intensive reading.
While maintaining the exam format (the triple structure of Part A, Part B, and Part C), the unit arrangement in this book is organized thematically according to the type of articles, with all articles in a unit belonging to the same genre. This allows candidates to focus on practicing the same type of articles, achieving intensive training and deeper 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 book's natural structure and conduct simulated postgraduate entrance exam reading comprehension practice, selecting articles of different types for concentrated and specialized training.