The Advanced Reading Course (Ⅱ), following Advanced Reading Course (Ⅰ), is suitable for learners who have finished learning the Advanced Reading Course (Ⅰ) or other textbooks at the same level and who have acquired high Chinese proficiency and mastered a vocabulary of 3,500-4,000 common words. This volume emphasizes the up-to-dateness and practicality of the language materials and pays attention to the teaching of knowledge about reading as well as the cultivation of multiple reading skills. With its written (in the broad sense) materials diverse in subjects and practical in content, it can totally improve learners’ reading comprehension in general and the comprehension of paragraphs and discourses in particular.