本書適合小學四年級學生使用。全書共100篇閱讀,分為基礎篇和提高篇。每篇閱讀單詞注釋、短文的中文翻譯,練習題。練習題型有:選擇填空題、判斷正誤題、填單詞、回答問題。閱讀材料體現了多樣性:人物、家庭、學校、動物、植物、科學、環境、地理等。還有一些幽默故事等讓學生在一種輕鬆狀態下習得知識,提高閱讀水準。本書每篇短文還配有音訊,系全國中考聽力主播朗讀。因此建議學生也可將此做為聽力補充材料,多聽多模仿,提高閱讀水準同時,亦提高聽力與口語能力。希望學生們多加練習,*限度地利用好本書,英語水準一定突飛猛進。
賴世雄教授是聞名海峽兩岸的英語教學專家,先後獲得美國明尼蘇達大學大眾傳播與英語教學雙學士學位,擔任託福專任講師18年,也是託福成績滿分記錄保持者之一。賴教授曾任上海復旦大學以及大連外國語大學客座教授,現任常春藤解析英語雜誌社社長,著有英語升學、進修、生活英語、兒童英語、職場英語叢書兩百餘種,並擔任多家電臺英語教學廣播主講。
1993年賴世雄教授開始擔任中央人民廣播電臺英語教學節目主播,時間長達12年,教學方式風趣幽默、深入淺出、妙趣橫生。2003年賴教授被《中國圖書商報》評選為中國英語教學十大名師之一。2004年至今擔任北京市政府主辦英語活動之主講教授。2014年1月,賴世雄教授的“美語從頭學”節目在北京外語廣播台開播。
賴世雄深入研究英語教學,對廣大英語學習者的需求有極為透徹的瞭解,長期以來受邀至各地演講,不遺餘力地傳授讀者英語學習的經驗。
基礎篇
Passage 1 Happy Toby
Passage 2 Pablo’s new school
Passage 3 Hide and seek
Passage 4 The animal park
Passage 5 The family camping
Passage 6 Lucky me
Passage 7 A cat is fishing
Passage 8 What do you want to be?
Passage 9 April Fool’s Day
Passage 10 Counting sheep
Passage 11 Is Father Christmas real?
Passage 12 Weather report
Passage 13 The surprise box
Passage 14 Information card
Passage 15 Treasures, not trash!
Passage 16 The four seasons
Passage 17 Granny’s cranberry sauce
Passage 18 What does a good neighbordo?
Passage 19 Not my work
Passage 20 We go to the grocery store
Passage 21 A day at the fun park
Passage 22 We are friends
Passage 23 A clever parrot
Passage 24 The Mollets family
Passage 25 A gold watch
Passage 26 Ice Cream University
Passage 27 Owls
Passage 28 Their Sunday
Passage 29 Christmas Day
Passage 30 Oranges
Passage 31 The fox and the pit (I)
Passage 32 Can the cat have a seat?
Passage 33 What time is it?
Passage 34 My five senses
Passage 35 The fox and the pit (II)
Passage 36 Rental Agency InformationForm
Passage 37 How many people are there inyour family?
Passage 38 The big storm
Passage 39 My brother
Passage 40 A surprise party
Passage 41 An absent-minded boy
Passage 42 That’s hard, that’s easy
Passage 43 A lion and four bulls
Passage 44 Go to the city
Passage 45 Don’t forget your homework
Passage 46 Pictures of Hugs
Passage 47 She wants a dictionary
Passage 48 Farm day
Passage 49 Animals’ sports meeting
Passage 50 Talent show 提高篇
Passage 51 Lancy’s day
Passage 52 Miss White packs sillythings
Passage 53 Pigeon
Passage 54 A girl and three bears
Passage 55 Whales
Passage 56 Play on the playground
Passage 57 Bill’s day
Passage 58 Helping Mom
Passage 59 My twin friends
Passage 60 I got a hundred
Passage 61 Never say “NO”
Passage 62 All about snakes
Passage 63 What am I? Where am I?
Passage 64 Finding the way
Passage 65 Do you know anything about themoon?
Passage 66 Light and shadows
Passage 67 What is that?
Passage 68 Little bat
Passage 69 K Day
Passage 70 Hair and beard
Passage 71 A box
Passage 72 The sky
Passage 73 A clever donkey
Passage 74 Monster Songs
Passage 75 Night workers
Passage 76 Mommy squirrel and herchildren
Passage 77 Hibernation
Passage 78 Billy goes to school
Passage 79 All about sharks
Passage 80 Dancing in the sky
Passage 81 A clever monkey
Passage 82 My little doll
Passage 83 Ant group
Passage 84 Valentine surprise
Passage 85 The big box
Passage 86 Personal Data
Passage 87 Daniel’s family tree
Passage 88 American flag and money
Passage 89 Peter’s and Mary's plans fornext week
Passage 90 Catching a rainbow
Passage 91 A school report
Passage 92 What’s going on?
Passage 93 People at work
Passage 94 Working dogs
Passage 95 Animals of Africa
Passage 96 The bookshelf
Passage 97 Living things and nonlivingthings
Passage 98 All about pigs
Passage 99 Animal groups
Passage 100 Ann gets a map