Enter the world of readingSelected Chinese Reading Training for High School (Grade 11)

Author: Zheng Guihua, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In the current Chinese textbooks, reading has become the focus, and students' reading skills are improved through repeated reading practice. It is said that reading is the best way to enhance writing skills. While students improve their reading abilities, they also strengthen their writing abilities. However, many high school students still struggle to perform well in exams. Why is this? The main reason may be that they have not yet fully and truly "entered the world of reading." This book is a carefully selected reading training guide for second-year high school students, helping you take significant strides "into the world of reading" and improve rapidly, thereby achieving ideal results. The reading passages in this book are mostly selected from recent articles in newspapers and magazines that are both excellent in content and style, with some excerpts from the works of renowned writers. The first and second yearbooks of high school are basically organized into units according to literary genres, while the third yearbook focuses on comprehensive review, integrating key knowledge points and exam topics into the selected passages and exercises, enabling more direct and effective preparation for the Chinese college entrance examination. Each article in the first and second yearbooks is preceded by a concise "Reading Insight," which may introduce the author and background information, comment on the characteristics of the article's content and form, guide the methods of reading analysis, or explain the thinking and techniques for solving exercise questions. The ultimate goal is to provide students with a key to unlock the door to reading, allowing them to "enter" and "appreciate" the world of reading with ease and enjoyment. The "Reading and Writing Exercises" at the end of each article follow the new curriculum standards and align with the requirements of the Chinese college entrance examination, aiming to improve students' abilities to understand the meaning of texts, select and integrate information, synthesize and summarize, analyze and compare, appreciate and evaluate, and express themselves in writing. The reference answers at the back of the book are for reference only. However, guiding students to study the answers (especially those for the college entrance examination) and learn how to answer accurately, comprehensively, and concisely is also an important training step.