This is volume five 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 that 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 guidelines, which helps the students to adapt themselves gradually to the Reading Comprehension in HSK.