This book is dedicated (献给)to the students of the Social
Intensive English Course conducted at Mingde University in Saskatoon between
October, 2000 and July, 2001. It was at their suggestion that this book came
into being, and it was their hard work and serious attention to every detail of
each until as it was being written which made the book possible.
We sincerely hope that both teachers and students will take seriously the
task of sending us comments on your teaching and learning experiences and
criticism of those aspects of the test that are good and useful, and those that
fail to meet the stated purpose of the book and need to be revised for a second
edition. We should also like to express our thanks to our
editor, Liu Huamin, for his patience and his careful editing and design work,
and Song Lihui who patiently sat through our endless discussions of every line
of the test. Special thanks go to Helen Armstrong for her
criticisms of the form content and language and for contributing some of the
exercises in the book.
David Smith
Li Hongyuan
Mingde University
Saskatoon
July, 2001 Why does the author write this book
Because of the ______ of the students of Mingde University.