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Read This Way is a series of Chinese reading materials prepared for students of intermediate Chinese. It is suitable for those who have have an understanding of the basic grammar of modern Chinese and have mastered about 2,000 common words. Altogether there are 28 units in 6 books. This series was once published with the title of Guide to Chinese Reading, and has recently been revised. This revision maintains the formats of students' interest, while updating 80% of the content to make it closely related with the contemporary situation in China. It is a highly effective tool for improving reading skills. In each unit, there are sections such as intensive reading, extensive reading, skim/scan, look up in the dictionary, character practice, words and sentences, sentence comprehension, etc. Some units also provide culture notes explaining any bits of culture mentioned in the articles. The well-designed combination of reading and exercises helps to comprehensively train the students' reading ability and to effectively enlarge their vocabulary. The accompanying, free MP3 CD contains the recording of articles in Intensive Reading and Extensive Reading.