本书旨在提供有关的背景材料，解答某些语言难点，并通过练习加深和巩固课文的内容，力求使教师上课有内容，学生课后有练习，自学者自学无障碍。鉴于英语对话易懂不易译，因而不易记的特点，我们还提供了全部对话的参考课文，以便读者对照学习。

Think of yourself as a package to be transported from one side of the world to the other.把你自己想象成一只将从世界的一端运到另一端的包裹。 think of…as—regard…as…,e.g. I think of her as a sad person with little success in her life. P93

UNIT ONE Greetings and Introductions
UNIT TWO Talking about the Weather
UNIT THREE Social Customs
UNIT FOUR Money and Banking
UNIT FIVE Getting Around Town
UNIT SIX Traveling by Air
UNIT SEVEN fOOD shopping—Western Style
UNIT EIGHT Eating Out
UNIT NINE Living in a Telephone Society
UNIT TEN Taking Care of your Health
UNIT ELEVEN Finding Housing
UNIT TWELVE Avoiding Crime
UNIT THIRTEEN Using the Library
UNIT FOURTEEN Writing Letters
UNIT FIFTEEN Filling Out Forms
UNIT SIXTEEN Attending Conferences
APPENDIXES
Ⅰ.Chinese Version of the Dialogs
Ⅱ.Key to the Exercises