Step into Reading: Selected High School Chinese Reading Training (Grade 12)

Author: Qu Ri, 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 improve writing. While students enhance their reading skills, they are also strengthening 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 senior high school students, helping you take significant steps to "enter" and quickly improve, thereby achieving ideal results. The reading passages in this book are mostly selected from recent newspapers and magazines, featuring high-quality and beautifully written contemporary articles, along with excerpts from works by famous writers. The first two volumes for junior and senior first and second grades are organized into units based on literary genres, while the third-grade volume 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 exam.
Each article in the first and second-grade volumes is preceded by a concise "Reading Insight" that either introduces the author and background information, comments on the content and form of the article, guides the methods for analyzing and interpreting the text, or explains the approach and techniques for solving exercises. The ultimate goal is to provide students with a key to unlock the door to reading, allowing them to "enter" and "appreciate" the texts with ease.
The "Reading and Writing Practice" sections at the end of each article follow the standards of the new curriculum and align with the requirements of the Chinese college entrance exam, 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 end of the book are for reference only. However, guiding students to study the answers (especially those for the college entrance exam) and learn how to answer accurately, comprehensively, and concisely is also an important part of the training process.