This book is dedicated to the students of the Third and Fourth Academia Sinica Intensive English Training Courses conducted at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou between October,1979 and July,1981.It was at their suggestion that this book came into being,and is was their hard work and serious attention to every detail of each unit as it was being written which made the book possible.

There is an English expression that "two heads are better than one".We sincerely hope that both teachers and students will take seriously the task of sending us comments on your teaching and learnitng experiences and criticism of those aspects of the text that are good and useful,and those that fail to meet the stated purpose of the book and need to be revised for a second edition.

1.DEDICATION

2.INTRODUCTION

3.UNIT ONE     Greetings and Introductions

4.UNIT TWO     Talking about the Weather

5.UNIT THREE    Social Customs

6.UNIT FOUR    Money and Banking

7.UNIT FIVE    Getting Around Town

8.UNIT SIX     Traveling by Air

9.UNIT SEVEN    Food Shopping —Western Style

10.UNIT EIGHT   Eating Out

11.UNIT NINE    Living in a Telephone Society

12.UNIT TEN    Taking Care of Your Health

13.UNIT ELEVEN   Finding Housing

14.UNIT TWELVE   Avoiding Crime

15.UNIT THIRTEEN  Using the Library

16.UNIT FOURTEEN  Writing Letters

17.UNIT FIFTEEN  Filling Out Forms

18.UNIT SIXTEEN  Attending Conferences(and General Review)

19. APPENDIXES

20.I.Brief Guide to English for Chinese Speakers

If you are terribly shy and modest about your knowledge and ability in your field,if you do not speak up for yourself when you arrive at an institution as a researcher,for example,for example, you may find yourself working as something like a "lab tech"washing test tubes instead of doing the scientific research you are in fact fully capable of doing.P15