Advanced English (Volume 1)

Author: Wu Yiyun
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Publish Date: 2007-02-09
Features: This book is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the "Senior English Syllabus for English Majors in Higher Education" and incorporates the teaching experience of the Foreign Languages Department at Fudan University in recent years. The book consists of 12 lessons, selected from original works of various genres from the UK, the US, and other countries. Each lesson includes five parts: text, author introduction and notes, exercises, genre knowledge, and supplementary reading materials. The text content is vivid and appropriately challenging, with an average length of about 3,000 words. The author introductions primarily provide information about the writers' era, life, and significant works. The notes briefly explain relevant historical background, proper nouns, and loanwords, etc. The exercises mainly consist of questions and prompts, vocabulary training, and comprehensive exercises such as cloze, paragraph translation, oral discussion, and guided writing. The genre knowledge covers general genre information and some major rhetorical devices. The supplementary reading materials are appended after the main texts, usually consisting of two pieces of varying lengths, on topics and styles that may be similar or different, for students to explore. This book draws on a wide range of sources, uses standardized language, and features a systematic content arrangement with thorough explanations of difficulties. As a result, it possesses three key characteristics: interest, knowledge, and practicality. It is not only suitable for advanced English reading courses for English majors in higher education but can also be used by non-English majors with a certain level of English proficiency and self-learners.