这套书的内容丰富实用。书中有切合教与学的语法、词汇、听力、会话、写作和阅读的基本知识；其语言材料则注意选择当今美国为广泛使用的简便精练的语言；其中的对话大都置于日常生活中最容易碰各种场合，并写进很多目前在美国最为流行的短语和短句；全套书风格是生动活泼的，不会让读者承受枯燥无味之苦。在这套书中有十二部美国著名小说的缩写本。

SECTION A:

1.Family Photos

2.School Crossing Guard

3.On the Subway

4.Do-It-Yourself

5.At the Bank

SECTION B:

1.At the Supermarket

2.The Paper Boy

3.Lunches for School

4.Cookout

5.Saturday Night

GLOSSARY

Many people in the city ride the subway to work.Stu-dents also ride the subway to high school or to the universi-ty.The subway is an inexpensive kind of transportation.Many people perfer the subway to buses.It usually is faster than a bus.