College English Test Band 6 Reading 30 Days to Breakthrough

Author: Xu Zhiyuan
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: The selection of reading materials is aimed at being broad and up-to-date. It emphasizes knowledge, social relevance, and contemporary significance. The articles in the book cover cultural background knowledge and the latest technological development information in fields such as literature, science, engineering, business, agriculture, and biology. Some materials are selected from the latest editions of English reading materials and current English news selections in China. Others are sourced from foreign newspapers, books, and the latest editions of foreign encyclopedias. The book provides comprehensive reading skills and articles with moderate difficulty, basically meeting the needs of a wide range of candidates for exam preparation. It enables students to effectively improve their reading comprehension skills in a relatively short time while also consolidating and enhancing their vocabulary usage, achieving twice the result with half the effort. The book is designed as a 30-day reading crash course. The reading comprehension question types are divided into eight categories: detail questions, inference questions, main idea questions, implication questions, attitude questions, true-or-false questions, title questions, and prediction questions. The last five days are dedicated to simulated test practice. In each category, the book introduces the question type. The daily sections thereafter include five parts: the first part introduces the question type, the second part provides analysis of real exam questions, with two articles selected as past exam papers and corresponding questions for each type. The second part is practical exercises, featuring two additional articles with questions requiring the application of the introduced techniques. The third part is a challenge to master CET6 vocabulary, with words that have appeared in past exams and also in the articles of the practical exercises.