This is the Volume four of Step By Step: A Course in Chinese Reading Comprehension. With altogether 16 units, 4 texts per unit, it is for international students who take four years' program to use in the 5th term; or for Chinese language majors in the 3rd grade. Developed for Chinese learners who are at the intermediate & advanced level, this course aims at improving the learners' reading skills comprehensively through the carefully selected materials and designed exercises which train students' skills in fast-reading, summarization and deduction. The difficulty and amount of vocabulary, the content, length and difficulty of the texts and the exercise types are close to HSK guideline, which helps the students to adapt themselves gradually to the Reading Comprehension in HSK.

Zhang Lina is an assistant professor in Chinese School of Xi'an International Studies University. She has been engaging in teaching and research of Chinese as a foreign language for many years. Her academic interest is methodology of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. She has ever compiled in chief many popular courses of Chinese reading comprehension, such as Chinese Reading Series( 1、2), Step By Step: A Course in Chinese Reading Comprehension(1～3).