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本书是根据听、说、读、写四会要求编写的，除课文外，附有丰富而十分实用的词汇与语法注释、口语与书面语等实践练习，并给出练习答案。为便于我国自学或跟班学生使用，我们增加了中文译文与生词注释，这样就能帮助学生确切地理解课文和减少查阅字典的时间，以便把主要精力用于操练和记忆上。
1 Never Trust Appearances（决不要只相信外貌） Rush hour in a provincial town is certainly not so busy as in London,but even so there are plenty of people moving about.Long,patient queues wait wearily for buses.Never-ending lines of cars are checked while red traffic lights change to green.Thousands of people are packed tightly in trains,the men''s faces buried in their evening papers while women try in vain to knit.