课程简介：短文内容篇幅和难度都有所加。侧重阅读理解的训练，在学习语言知识的基础上，帮助学生准确把握语言材料的中心思想或主要观点，注意细节并抓住关键点。

适用人群：中级汉语学习者。

教学目标：理解与工作、学习、社会生活相关较简单的语言材料，熟悉不同题材，并对题材内容进行描述、解释，表述清楚，且有一定的连贯性。能就熟悉的话题与他人进行交流，使用基本的交际策略，准备表达自己的观点和看法。全面掌握汉语语法，并高质量地运用语法。

Course Introduction：The passages in this course are more complicated in terms of length and difficulty. This course emphasizes reading exercises and enables learners to find out the theme of a passage and get its key points.

Target Learners：Intermediate Chinese learners who have mastered 2000 commonly used words and related grammar patterns.

Learning Objective：Learners are able to comprehend simple Chinese materials closely related to their work, study, and social life, to describe, explain, and express these different types of materials logically. They are also able to talk with others on some familiar topics and express their point of view or attitude with some basic communication strategies.