《新课标高中英语》紧扣高考，尤其紧扣近几年的高考命题趋势，全面系统地对高中阶段的英语知识进行了详尽的讲解，并使用了大量典型的例子以说明概念或规则；我们还尽量以一目了然的框架和简单明了的语言展现给读者清晰的语言结构；丛书各分册所选用试题典型、新颖，富有启发性。内容选择上既注意重点、难点、常考点，更注意英语知识的必要拓展、相互联系，密切关注新的命题特点，重视新的命题方向，充分体现高考英语学科能力测试与综合能力测试的要求。
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She is one of China's fifty most successful business leaders and she has been described as being bigger than Oprah. Well known to one billion viewers, Yang Lan is among China's most popular TV personalities. Born in Beijing in 1968, Yang Lan began he...
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Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together. More than any other form of literature, poetry plays with sounds, words and grammar. That makes poetry difficult to write, but very interesting to read. Poetry also cal...
