2008 postgraduate entrance examination English reading comprehension intensive reading 100 pieces New Oriental English

Author: Yin Jiankun
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: In this book, the author suggests using the "divide and conquer" 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 not only wastes valuable time but also yields poor results with a high forgetting rate. If you plan to memorize 20 words a day, you can distribute these 20 words across three different time slots in a day for memorization. Memorize 6 words upon waking up, 6 after lunch, and 8 before going to sleep. This way, it won’t interfere with other academic tasks. Repeat this process the next day. In fact, the vocabulary required for postgraduate entrance exam English is mostly high school-level words, plus less than 800 words from the CET-4 and CET-6 exams. Therefore, you can easily memorize them quickly. However, during the memorization process, it is essential to review promptly. This means reviewing the words memorized the previous day before memorizing new words on the second day, and reviewing the words from the previous two days before memorizing new words on the third day, and so on. By the 30th day, you will have memorized the words for 30 days once and reviewed them 29 times, making it quite difficult to forget them. This method of memorizing words 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: first, phrases encountered in the reading comprehension section of past exam papers, and second, phrases summarized in the cloze test analysis section of the annual exam syllabus. In postgraduate entrance exam English, long sentences are the main obstacle to understanding passages and doing translations well. To understand such complex sentences, you cannot read them word by word using ordinary reading methods, but should instead 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" (clause) into Chinese; and fourth, combine the resulting simple Chinese sentences into a longer Chinese sentence. At the end of each article in this book, the objective of the exercises is clearly marked as mimicking past exam questions.