【正】 -A truncated shell model approach is presented for studying the properties oflow-lying states as well as the high-spin states in even-even nuclei with the help of thegeneralized boson-fermion expansion technique.The primary fermion state space isspanned by the interacting valence protons and neutrons with effective nucleon-nucleonforce.The truncated model space is considered as a direct sum of two subspaces corre-sponding to the configurations of(sd)<sup>N</sup> and(sd)<sup>N-1</sup>,respectively,plus a broken fermionpair.Numerical calculations are carried out for <sup>130~134</sup>Ce isotopes.The calculated spec-trum reproduces the experimental data quite well,especially the backbending appearingin these nuclei.The results suggest that the approach is able to describe the spectroscopyof states with angular momenta up to J≈20.