本书选取了100篇难易度适中的小短文，话题更加丰富多样，不仅有科普常识、幽默小故事、生活小常识，还有自然科学小知识等。每篇文章都配有与文章内容相关的精美图片，帮助学生更好地理解文章内容，同时也激发学生的阅读兴趣。每篇文章后的重难点词汇和句型讲解透彻，练习题型丰富多彩，除了常规的选择题外，还有判断正误、根据短文内容填空、根据文章内容回答问题等。每篇文章翻译和练习题答案讲解透彻，易懂。本书旨在激发小学生学习英语的兴趣，强调自主学习。

Passage 1 Mark's Bedroom
Passage 2 Our Trip
Passage 3 My Favourite Animal
Passage 4 Dick's Family
Passage 5 You Can't Beat Me Anyway
Passage 6 Our English Village
Passage 7 An Old Cat
Passage 8 Dirty Hands
Passage 9 My Family Photo
Passage 10 Three Boys' Hobbies
Passage 11 The Greedy Dog
Passage 12 Animal's Homes
Passage 13 Juliet's Birthday
Passage 14 Watching TV
Passage 15 A Note for Sick Leave
Passage 16 Brown's Family
Passage 17 A Telephone Call
Passage 18 A Kind Driver
Passage 19 Lynn's Weekends
Passage 20 How Old Is She?..
Passage 21 At the Train Station
Passage 22 A Foolish Cat
Passage 23 Two Goats
Passage 24 A Diary
Passage 25 Happy Birthday
Passage 26 A Gentle Giant
Passage 27 My Favourite Sport
Passage 28 A Bridge
Passage 29 I Want to Get Off
Passage 30 Bad News and Good News
Passage 31 My School Life
Passage 32 Five Fingers
Passage 33 A Smart Tortoise
Passage 34 Do You Want Me to Tell a Lie?
Passage 35 The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Passage 36 The Sports Festival
Passage 37 Hangzhou
Passage 38 Hiding in the Letter Box
Passage 39 Owls
Passage 40 Why Do the Flowers Die?
Passage 41 The Nutty Narrows Bridge
Passage 42 A Naughty Boy
Passage 43 Happy New Year
Passage 44 At the Circus
Passage 45 Christmas Day
Passage 46 Danny's Hobby
Passage 47 The Story about a Bear
Passage 48 A Playbill
Passage 49 Mousy Has a Stomachache
Passage 50 Only One Left
Passage 51 Fast-food Restaurants
Passage 52 Where Is the Snow?
Passage 53 Dolphins and Crocodiles
Passage 54 His Father Eats a Fly
Passage 55 I Want to Be the Best
Passage 56 Tony
Passage 57 Amy's View of Shopping
Passage 58 Mark Twain and His Train Ticket
Passage 59 Two Good Friends
Passage 60 Boys Like Cars
Passage 61 Henry's Day
Passage 62 What Do They Like?
Passage 63 A Clever Boy
Passage 64 A Barber's Joke
Passage 65 Big Ben
Passage 66 How to Learn English Well?
Passage 67 I Think I'm in the Office
Passage 68 Our House
Passage 69 Snow White's Story
Passage 70 My Son's Wife Worries about It, Too
Passage 71 The Paper Is in My Pocket
Passage 72 Not My Work
Passage 73 That's Not Enough
Passage 74 A Polite Boy
Passage 75 Neighbours
Passage 76 Open the Drum with the Knife
Passage 77 Women in Modern Society
Passage 78 Protect Our Eyes
Passage 79 Preparing for a Trip
Passage 80 Two Mice
Passage 81 Why Do You Kick Me?
Passage 82 A Girl or a Boy, a Woman or a Man?
Passage 83 Where Am I?
Passage 84 The Weather in Britain
Passage 85 A Broken Mirror and Bad Luck
Passage 86 Looking for the Office
Passage 87 An Honest Boy
Passage 88 Two Families
Passage 89 A Funny Man
Passage 90 The Different Answers
Passage 91 Don't Stop Me
Passage 92 Newspapers
Passage 93 Looking for Excuses
Passage 94 I Am Waiting for the Clock to Ring
Passage 95 You Can't Say "No"
Passage 96 What's Happiness?
Passage 97 In the Future
Passage 98 Mr.Going-to-do
Passage 99 The Lift
Passage 100 The Doorkeeper