English reading ability is the basis of listening, speaking, writing and translation. English reading training is the core of English learning. Reading has always been an important link in English teaching. Understanding from sentence to paragraph, from paragraph to article, should be done through careful reading. Therefore, it has always been an arduous and urgent task in English teaching to guide students' reading methods and improve their reading speed and understanding ability. First, stimulate students' interest in reading "Interest is the best teacher". Interest is the tendency of people to like certain activities. The more students are interested in English, the higher their enthusiasm for learning and the stronger their consciousness. Therefore, we should constantly stimulate students' interest in English in teaching. Teachers should adopt various vivid and interesting teaching methods to stimulate students' interest in learning English, such as making full use of visual teaching AIDS and audio-visual teaching methods to create an English learning environment for students, increase the atmosphere and stimulate students' interest in learning; Insist on organizing classroom teaching in English, infect students with beautiful pronunciation and intonation, inspire students with humorous language, and choose practical, vivid and interesting example sentences so that students can acquire knowledge in a relaxed and happy way; At the same time, create as many opportunities for students to practice their language as possible, such as making duty reports in English, situational dialogues, teaching English songs, playing games, performing English short plays and organizing English competitions. Let students express their thoughts with the words or sentence patterns they have learned, fully satisfy their desire for expression and creativity, and make them enjoy the fun of English learning, thus generating strong learning requirements and lasting learning enthusiasm. In addition, introducing English background knowledge, telling English jokes and foreign anecdotes can stimulate students' interest in English, arouse students' desire to read, and make students want to read and love reading, so as to get twice the result with half the effort in reading class. Second, teach according to law and give students the initiative to learn. Traditionally, teachers' task is to impart knowledge. According to Han Yu, it is "preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts", but just imparting knowledge is not enough. To improve students' quality, it is necessary to cultivate students' ability. Therefore, English reading teaching should emphasize the word "learning", from letting students "learn" to cultivating students "learning", giving them methods and giving them the initiative to learn. Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said: "I think a good teacher is not teaching, not teaching students;" Is to teach students to learn. "It is very important for students to learn how to study. Only when students master scientific and effective learning methods and accept new knowledge can they draw inferences from others, transfer knowledge better and benefit students for life. Third, increase language practice and expand English reading space. It should be said that the articles selected by each unit of reading text in senior high school are all good articles, excellent articles, rich in content and covering a wide range. Cultural customs at home and abroad, biographies of world celebrities, sports competitions and dietary hygiene habits reflected in the text can attract the attention and interest of senior high school students. However, from the perspective of cultivating reading ability, it is far from enough to limit reading teaching to text books. The classroom teaching content of reading class should not only stay in closed classrooms and narrow books, but also face wider social life, broaden the perspective of reading content, get rid of the shackles of traditional English reading textbooks and improve students' ability and quality. One way: choose three to five books with moderate difficulty, knowledge and interest every week, print them out and send them to students for reading after class, and ask them to do corresponding reading comprehension questions. Method 2: Elective courses of English works are offered in senior high schools. First of all, we should work hard on the selection of materials, and broaden the scope of topics by combining students' interest characteristics, acceptance and expression ability. We should choose reading materials from newly published English newspapers and magazines, and we can also use some audio-visual books and audio-visual books (VCD, MTV, video tapes, etc.). These materials are characterized by diverse themes and rich contents, which can grasp the characteristics of the times, arouse students' interest and stimulate their initiative in learning. Fourthly, English reading teaching should permeate personality education, which is one of the goals of quality education at present. The English reading textbook for senior high school is a good set of ideological, scientific, interesting and practical textbooks. Reading teaching should combine teaching content with ideological and moral education in English reading teaching to improve students' political and ideological quality. Therefore, teachers should try their best to tap the ideological education factors in textbooks, take knowledge as the carrier, and timely and appropriately infiltrate ideological and moral education and patriotism education. Reading is not an isolated language skill. On the basis of mastering a certain vocabulary, you must also have a certain grammar. Senior high school students' grammar is not comprehensive, so they need systematic training, especially strengthening the analysis and understanding of difficult sentences. The key to understanding difficult sentences lies in grasping the trunk of the sentence, grasping the structure and logical relationship between sentence components, and finally grasping the core meaning of the sentence. First, developing good reading habits is the premise of improving reading ability. Different reading methods will produce different results. A good reading habit should be: (1) Don't read aloud or point, but read silently. Reading aloud and reading with fingers will distract attention and limit reading speed. Silent reading can concentrate the brain's attention, think while reading, ask questions and speculate. (2) Don't read word for word, but take the meaning group or sentence as the unit. Paying too much attention to words in word-for-word reading will not only affect the reading speed, but also make it difficult to grasp the central idea of the article. (3) Don't repeat reading, which will easily affect the concentration of understanding, slow down reading speed and dampen students' interest in reading. Use all your knowledge and wisdom to jump over obstacles and see the end in one breath. (4) Don't look up new words in the dictionary as soon as you see them. Get into the habit of guessing the meaning of new words according to the context, and be willing to let go of difficulties where it doesn't affect the understanding of the full text. Only in this way can we keep our interest in reading. (5) Don't translate while reading, which will not only affect the reading speed, but also promote understanding. You should think directly in English, remember the key words and grasp the main idea. Second, pay attention to the cultivation of reading skills. Reading requires a variety of abilities, such as language ability, memory ability, language skills, understanding ability, reading skills and so on. Reading ability is also a reading method, and different reading purposes require different reading methods; Different reading materials need different reading methods; Different kinds of books need different reading methods. Bacon's exposition of reading skills and methods in On Reading fully illustrates this point: "There are some books to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested. You can also invite people to read books and take abstracts, but only if the subject matter is inferior or the value is not high, otherwise the refining of books is like the distillation of water and tasteless. " Below, the author introduces some reading skills respectively. (1) Find the topic sentences and grasp the key words. Every article is an organic whole, a paragraph has only one topic, and each paragraph has a sentence to express the theme of this paragraph. This sentence is called topic sentence. Most topic sentences appear at the beginning of the paragraph, some at the end of the paragraph, and a few in the middle of the paragraph. The general article writing follows the principle that important information is put in the first sentence, so the "first-line" reading method is especially suitable for students to read articles on topics they are very familiar with. It can help readers to establish the content framework of the whole article in their minds first, and then supplement the framework and read it carefully. (2) Reading the first paragraph and the first sentence of each paragraph, the first paragraph and the last paragraph of each article or chapter have special significance. The author will state his writing intention in the first paragraph, or he may summarize the whole chapter in the last paragraph. Therefore, we should attach great importance to the first and last paragraphs. At the same time, we should pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph, because often the paragraphs after the first paragraph are the expansion of the first paragraph. Furthermore, paying attention to the first sentence of each paragraph can make up for the sometimes unclear defects in the first paragraph and solve the difficult problems in the final comprehensive discussion. (3) The purpose of learning skip reading is to find some specific information you need from the article. Need to read vertically, that is, don't read horizontally with your eyes, read vertically. For each line of literature, don't pay attention to keywords and non-keywords Keywords are also swept away, because vertical reading or scanning keywords is to grasp the main idea before reading other parts, and the speed must be fast. Keywords refer to subject, predicate and object; Title, quotation marks, bold words, bold words, big letters, italics and underlined parts of the article; Undertaking words and transitional words; Pronouns, verbs, adjectives. (4) Correct Judgment and Reasoning After reading the article and understanding the main idea of the article, we should put forward higher requirements for ourselves, that is, according to the language used by the author, the quoted examples, the dialogues and actions of the characters, and the description of psychological activities, we can infer what the author intends to write this article, what problems the author wants to explain, what opinions he expresses and what attitude he holds. This is a process of judgment and reasoning that infers the deep meaning of an article through superficial words, which can promote students' positive thinking and cultivate higher understanding ability, accurate judgment ability and decisive reasoning ability. The acquisition of these abilities helps students to read and understand articles smoothly and improve reading efficiency. Third, grasp the genre of articles with different themes. According to the characteristics of specific genres, we adopt different methods to read quickly and understand correctly. Narrative should explain the people, places and events, and then explain the reasons for the events; Argumentative essays generally put forward arguments first, and then analyze or demonstrate with examples to draw conclusions; In the explanatory text, the author first puts forward the object of explanation, and then explains it from different aspects. In addition, when reading, we should read consciously and selectively according to the needs of the problem, so as to achieve the purpose of fast reading. The main requirements of NMET reading comprehension test are: 1. The main ideas and main ideas of the reading material, as well as the facts and details used to explain the main ideas and main ideas. 2. Understand both concrete facts and abstract concepts. 3. Understand both the literal meaning and the deep meaning, including the author's attitude and intention. 4. We should not only understand the meaning of a sentence or a paragraph, but also understand the logical relationship of the whole article, and make reasoning and judgment accordingly. We can't only understand according to the information provided, but also combine the common sense that middle school students should have. According to these five requirements, we can divide multiple-choice questions in reading comprehension into the following categories: detail understanding, word understanding, theme and theme, guessing word meaning and reasoning. Below, the author talks about the skills and strategies of doing English reading comprehension questions based on his usual teaching experience. First, look at the problem first and read the article with the problem. That is, read the test questions first, and then read the article. To read the stem, we must first master the question type and distinguish whether it is an objective information question or a subjective judgment question. Objective information questions can be found directly from the article; Subjective judgment questions examine the emotional tone of the article, the author's unspoken views and the understanding of the central theme that runs through the whole article. This type of question requires students to make deep reasoning about the author's attitude, intention and the whole article. Secondly, we should know the stem of the test questions and the information contained in each option, then scan the article in a targeted way to quickly locate the relevant information, and then integrate, identify, analyze and compare the relevant information, so as to eliminate interference items and choose the correct answer. This method strengthens the pertinence of reading, improves the accuracy of doing problems and saves valuable time. Especially suitable for the understanding of graphics and tables. Second, read the details carefully and straighten out the train of thought and the context of the article. An article is by no means a bunch of unrelated sentences. The author is a text with pulse. For example, the narrative takes the characters as the center, takes time or space as the clue, and unfolds the story according to the occurrence, development and ending of the event; The discussion type includes three elements: argument, argument and conclusion, and expounds the point of view through explanation and examples. According to the characteristics of the article, we can read the details carefully, find out the keywords with the clues of people, time, place, events and causes and effects, and draw a complete and clear cognitive map of the theme and details of the article by using the "drawing list method". Third, carry out logical reasoning and make a deep understanding. In actual reading, sometimes the author does not express his intention. Readers should study the hints of details according to the literal meaning and through the logical relationship of the text, scrutinize the author's attitude and understand the meaning of the article. This is what is usually called deep understanding. Deep understanding mainly includes inductive generalization questions (central idea questions, adding titles, etc.). ) and reasoning questions, which are difficult in reading comprehension. Deep understanding is a creative thinking activity. It must be faithful to the original; According to the facts and clues provided by the article, based on the known, infer the unknown, and can't imagine it out of thin air and guess at will; It requires readers to analyze, mine and logically reason the surface information of the text, and can only generalize. Only by thoroughly understanding the literal meaning of the article can reasoning have the premise and foundation. The commonly used words in reasoning questions are: inference, suggestion, suggestion, instruction, etc. In short, English learning is a gradual process, and the cultivation of reading ability is not a day's work. We need to accumulate language knowledge, enlarge our vocabulary, read extensively, exercise our analytical ability, improve our cognitive ability, master and use grammar knowledge correctly, learn certain reading skills and master reading methods. Author: Han Ying …