本书以培养学生学习英语的兴趣为首要目标，通过阅读训练和测试引导学生养成良好的阅读习惯，掌握各种阅读技巧，拓展知识面，轻松达到有效学习的目的。
本书的阅渎材料一部分选自国外小学生的读物，原汁原味；一部分选自幽默、有趣、极富哲理的小故事；一部分由考试中常见阅读材料改编。题材全面，难易程度适中，可读性强，并配有精美生动的插图，以增加趣味性，并帮助学生理解短文。
本书打破传统的题型设计方式，首先提取“重点句子”，帮助学生掌握重点句型及词语，并设“句子仿写”题型，让学生练习重点句型及短语。再者，考查学生对短文理解程度的题型也相对活泼、多样化，将词汇、短语等考点巧妙地融入各种题型中，引导学生边读边学、边读边记、边读边练。
在小学高年级的阅读训练中，部分练习的难度达到初中一年级的水平，为小学升初中做好准备。

1 A Riddle
2 Radio Programmes
3 I'm Mary
4 Can You Find Bob?
5 A Field Trip
6 A Football Match
7 My Grandfather
8 A Picture of a Family
9 In the Nature Park
10 0 Visit Forest Zoo
11 Bedtime Prayers
12 Where Is the Father?
13 Two Bulls
14 What Are Stars Like?
15 Three Good Friends
16 My Wife Will Exchange Them
17 Betty and Kitty
18 Aunt Judy's Birthday
19 Answer the Phone
20 A Clever Father
21 A Drunk Man
22 Invite a Friend for Supper
23 When a Tiger Comes
24 A Gentleman's Umbrella
25 You Must Sit Very High Up
26 The Fall
27 Birds
28 The Clever Squirrel
29 How to Get a Seat by the Fire?
30 I Can't Let Him Get Away
31 Does the Young Man Work in the Store?
32 The Pizza Machine
33 A Barber's Joke
34 Yawn
35 Three Turtles
36 The Statue of Liberty
37 A Canary and a Bat
38 The Plum Tree
39 I Like to Be a Volunteer
40 The Turtles Have a Good Time
41 My Father's Hobby
42 A Rabbit and a Lion
43 I'm Father
44 The Goose with the Golden Eggs
45 The Toy Show
46 Love of Animals
47 Trees Can Also "Laugh"
48 Jim and Kate
49 Please Write to Me
50 Four Seasons
51 Gift
52 They Are Directly from America
53 Who Is My Father?
54 Three Foxes
55 A Warm-hearted Priest
56 Two Friends and a Bear
57 It Depends
58 Water
59 British Schools
60 The White House
61 I Five Yuan for Pulling out a Tooth
65 A Young Man
63 Rope or Ox?
64 God's Different Jobs
65 How to Bow?
66 An Englishman
67 A "Knowledgeable" Landlord
68 The Attraction of the Map
69 The Farmer and His Children
70 The Lion in a Farmyard
71 Who Was the First Man?
72 The Intelligent Son
73 A Lucky Seed
74 Haircut
75 A Fox and a Cock
76 American Families
77 The Father and the Son
78 The Lion and the Mouse
79 The Traffic Problem
80 A Clever Girl
81 The Love for Nature
82 Five Months Older
83 The New Baby
84 The Public Beaches of Hong Kong
85 A Good Way to Pass an Exam
86 Three Men and Seventeen Oranges
87 American Food
88 Hand-shaking in England and Germany
89 The Weather
90 J. K. Rowling
91 You Ate a Fly
92 Jim and the Old Man
93 Mistake
94 Pyramids in Mexico
95 A Day of a Little Mouse
96 Clean Glass
97 Not Listening
98 How Much Is It?
99 I Have Never Been to Spain
100 Two Similar Telephone Numbers
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