本书融题型分析、技巧讲解、强化训练、题目详解为一体,旨在帮助考生快速领悟考纲精髓,准确把握命题趋势,系统掌握考试要点,通过科学有效的训练,迅速提高英语水平和应试能力,顺利通过考试。考试大纲深度解读,帮助考生明晰考试要求及备考方向,重要考点悉心归纳,便于考生抓住复习**,有的放矢,题型技巧全面点拨,帮助考生提高答题效率,轻松应试,仿真模拟强化训练,**考生边学边练,成绩稳步提高。

Whenever we could, Joan and I took refuge in the streets of Gibraltar. The Englishman's home is his castle because he has not much choice. There is nowhere to sit in the streets of England, not even, after twilight, in the public gardens. The climate, very often, does not even permit him to walk outside. Naturally, he stays indoors and creates a cocoon of comfort. That was the way we lived in Leeds.
These southern people, on the other hand, look outwards. The Gibraltarian home is, typically, a small and crowded apartment up several flights of dark and dirty stairs. In it, one, two or even three old people share a few ill-lit rooms with the young family. Once he has eaten, changed his clothes, embraced his wife, kissed his children and his parents, there is nothing to keep the southern man at home. He hurries out, taking even his breakfast coffee at his local bar. He comes home late for his aftemoon meal after an appetitive hour at his caf6. He sleeps for an hour, dresses, goes out again and stays out until late at night. His wife does not miss him, for she is out, too——at the market in the morning and in the afternoon sitting with other mothers, baby-minding in the sun.
The usual Gibraltarian home has no sitting-room, living-room or lounge. The parlour of our working-class houses would be an intolerable waste of space. Easy-chairs, sofas and such-like furniture are unknown. There are no bookshelves, because there are no books. Talking and drinking, as well as eating, are done on hard chairs round the dining-table, between a sideboard decorated with the best glasses and an inevitable display cabinet full of family treasures, photographs and souvenirs. The elaborate chandelier over this table proclaims it as the hub of the household and of the family. "Hearth and home" makes very little sense in Gibraltar. One's home is one's town or village, and one's hearth is the sunshine.

**章 真题自测与大纲解读
**节 真题自测
第二节 真题点评
第三节 TEM—8考试大纲对阅读测试的要求
第二章 阅读技巧大点兵
**节 通过构词法及上下文推测词义
第二节 通过分析句子主干破解疑难长句
第三节 通过定位快速寻找答案
第四节 通过辨识选项解答题目
第五节 3大答题步骤
第三章 题材扫描与题型剖析
**节 7类题材全面扫描
第二节 8种题型深度剖析
第三节 真题强化训练
Test 1 社会+社会+人物故事+经济
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Test 2 文化+社会+社会+人物故事
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Test 3 教育+社会+文化+人物故事
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Test 4 文化+政治+人物故事+社会
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Test 5 教育+人物故事+文化+文化
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Test 6 人物故事+健康+文化+社会
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Test 7 经济+社会+人物故事+政治
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第四章 全真模拟集训
unit 1 教育+社会+文化+人物故事
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unit 2 教育+社会+人物故事+文化
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unit 3 文化+政治+人物故事+社会
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unit 4 文化+人物故事+文化+社会
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unit 5 文化+人物故事+社会+社会
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unit 6 社会+文化+人物故事+文化
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unit 7 社会+政治+人物故事+社会
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unit 8 社会+社会+人物故事+健康
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《新东方·英语专业8级阅读特训》:真题自测知识探底,专八大纲全面解读,基础技能系统讲解,阅读技巧全面点拨,题材体裁科学分类,主题词汇拓展延伸,历年真题层层剖析,仿真模拟强化训练。