丛书都是按教学课时编排的，每课时都明确了学习目标（“应知应会”），然后设置“帮你会学”、“范例选讲”、“随堂考题”等栏目，以确保学习目标的达成。四个栏目合在一起，相辅相成，其核心就是“学会”和“会学”两个词语。各栏目的内容讲究“新”、“巧”、“活”、“精”，讲究层次和梯度，从而扩大了适用范围，既可供学生使用，也可供教师参考。

Unit 1 The Summer Holidays

Unit 2 In the Lab

Unit 3 American English

Unit 4 Travel

Unit 5 Why Do You Do That?

Unit 6 A New Factory

Unit 7 Earthquake

Unit 8 Mainly Revision

Unit 9 Computers

Unit 10 Sports

Unit 11 Country Music

Unit 12 English Programmes

Unit 13 Abraham Lincoln

Unit 14 Mainly Revision

Unit 15 Healthy Eating

Unit 16 Fire!

Unit 17 Nature

Unit 18 The Necklace

Unit 19 Jobs

Unit 20 Mainly Revision

Unit 21 Karl Mark

Unit 22 Britain and Ireland

Unit 23 Rescuing the Temple

Unit 24 The Science of Fanning

Unit 25 At the Conference

Unit 26 Mainly Revision

IV.阅读理解

A.短文阅读

During World War II , a lot of young women in Britain were in the

army. Joan Phillips was one of them. She worked in a big camp (营房) ,

and of course met a lot of men, officers and soldiers.

One evening she met Captain Humphreys at dance. He said to her, 1

m going abroad( 出国 ) tomorrow, but I' d be very happy if we could write to

each other. " Joan agreed, and they wrote for several months.

Then his letters stopped, but she received one from another officer,

telling her that he had been wounded and was in a certain army hospital in

England.

Joan went there and said to the matron(护士长) ,"I've come to visit

Captain Humphreys.

"Only relatives are allowed to visit patients(病人) here," the matron

said."0h, that's all right," answered Joan, "I'm his sister."

"I'm very pleased to meet you," the matron said,"I m his mother!

1 .Which one of the following is UNTRUE?

Joan Phillips ____.

A. was a woman soldier

B. met a lot of men, officers and soldiers at dance one evening

C. agreed to make friends with Humphreys

D. worked for her own country all the time

2. How did Joan get to know that Humphreys had been wounded?

A. Humphreys told her by writing a letter.

B. She got it from a newspaper.

C. Another officer wrote to her, telling her about it.

D. The matron in the hospital told her all about it.

3.Which one of the following is UNTRUE?

Captain Humphreys ____.

A. got wounded in England

B. got wounded abroad

C. was sent back to England after he got wounded

D. couldn' t write to Joan because of being wounded

4. Humphrcys' mother ____.

A. looked like a doctor

B. knew Joan and allowed her to visit her son

C. found out that Joan had told a lie and didn' t allow her to visit

her son

D. worked in the army hospital

5. Joan ____ when she heard that matron was Humphreys' mother.

A. got happy B. got surprised

C. didn' t know what to do D. got angry

Mr. and Mrs. Green lived in a big city, and one summer they went to

the countryside for their holiday. They enjoyed it very much because it was a

quiet, clean place.

One day they went for a walk early in the moming and met an old man.

The old man lived on a farm, and he was sitting in the warm sun in front of

his house. Mr. Green asked him,"Do you like to live in this quiet place?"

"Yes, 1 do.' said the old man.

Mr. Green said,"what are the good things about it?"

The old man answered, " Well, the people go and visit it. And there

are also lots of children here.

Mr. Green said,"That is interesting. And what are the bad things?"

The old man thought for a while and then said,"Well, the same things real-

ly".

主编简介

蔡上鹤 1942年12月生，上海市人。1964年

毕业于华东师大数学系，现为人民教育出版社编

审、人教版九年义务教育初中数学系列教材主编，

课程教材研究所研究员，中国《数学通报》编委，美

国数学会会员，享受国家级突出贡献专家待遇。著

有中学数学教科书、《数学纵横谈》等。

顾振彪 1942年12月生，上海市人。1965年

毕业于华东师大中文系，现为人民教育出版社中学

语文室主任、编审，课程教材研究所研究员。参与

编写和主持编写初、高中语文教材多部，出版有与

人合著的《语文教材的编制与使用》、《文学写作技

巧七十题》等多部著作，并发表论文几十篇。