Graded Chinese Reader 3000 Words [Selected, Abridged Chinese Contemporary Short Stories]. ISBN: 9787513808323

汉语分级阅读 3000词
1、精心选编中国当代作家的中短篇小说，反映中国当代普通人生活；
2、全书汉语词汇量控制在3000个，参照《中国汉语水平考试大纲》中的甲级词1033个和乙级词2018个；
3、多用常用词，且常用词复现率高，句子力求简短，结构完整；
4、全文标注拼音，难懂词、句子加英文旁注，附中文例句；
5、每篇故事有英文“阅读指导”、“作者简介”和中文“思考题”；
6、本书为汉语分级阅读2修订版。

目录
一、浪进船舱
二、不会变形的金刚
三、讹诈
四、遍地白花
五、校园三曲

Preface
It is well-known that reading practice is an effective method to improve one’s proficiency in an foreign language. For students of Chinese as a foreign language, learning how to read Chinese is an essential and necessary process for getting familiar with Chinese words. However, to become effectively literate, one needs to have a command of about 3000 to 5000 Chinese words. For students of Chinese as a foreign language, getting acquainted with such a large Chinese vocabulary is quite a heavy burden. But students are eager to read in Chinese, even with their limited Chinese vocabulary. The author once taught Chinese in the Deparment of Venice University and found that the students needed some simple Chinese materials to improve their reading ability. Graded Chinese Readers are such simplified books designed for students of Chinese as a foreign language. The main purpose of Graded Chinese Readers is to help students improve their reading comprehension. Graded Chinese Readers can be useful both inside and outside the classroom.

Clarity, readability and language practicability are characteristics of the selected short stories and novella. Some are prize-winning works. The stories describe Chinese people’s lives and various social changes that have happened in the last twenty years in China. Therefore, students of Chinese as a foreign language can gain a better knowledge of the everyday life of Chinese people through some literary works and some important contemporary Chinese writers. In order to help readers have a good comprehension of these works, there is “Guide to reading” before each story, and after each reading there are some questions based on the stories and a brief introduction to the writers.

The vocabulary of Graded Chinese Reader 3000 words is limited to about 3000 Chinese words. This is based on the 1033 Chinese words defined as basic vocabulary in the Level A (甲级词汇) of the Chinese Proficiency Test (汉语水平考试，HSK), together with 2018 words from the Level B of HSK basic vocabulary (乙级词汇).

In Graded Chinese Reader 3000 words, the most common words are used, and appear frequently for students to memorize. In the book, Chinese sentences are reasonably short, and complex sentences are avoided. In some cases different sentences are used to paraphrase more difficult sentences for clarification. Pinyin is given to the stories so that students can review and memorize pronunciation of Chinese words and look them up in a dictionary by themselves. In each story, for some key words, difficult words, idioms and difficult sentences, notes and examples are given at the side of each page. Notes are unique to each story so readers can choose any story to begin to read without turning to the notes in other stories. In addition, the stories are illustrated with pictures, which can help students understand the stories better. In summary the aims of Graded Chinese Readers are to reduce the difficulty of Chinese reading, to enlarge the readers’ vocabulary, and to improve Chinese reading and listening ability.