Reading comprehension questions occupy considerable weight in English test, with many types of questions and large scores, which can best reflect students' comprehensive English application ability. We can improve English reading comprehension from four aspects and strive to get good grades in the exam.

First of all, we should enlarge our vocabulary and promote reading.

Vocabulary is one of the three elements of language and the cornerstone of reading comprehension. The first problem we encounter in reading comprehension is the word barrier. Without a certain vocabulary as the basis, it is impossible to improve our understanding ability. Some linguists have found through investigation that if the vocabulary of foreign language learners reaches 5000, the correct reading rate can reach 56%, the vocabulary reaches 6400, and the correct reading rate can reach 63%. Therefore, mastering textbook words skillfully and expanding extracurricular vocabulary appropriately are the basis of improving reading ability.

Second, we should strictly train our reading speed.

Reading speed is an important indicator of reading ability. To improve reading speed, we can consider from three aspects:

1. Overcome bad reading habits.

Some students have many bad habits when reading, such as: narrow vision, only reading one word at a time; Point to the words and read them one by one; Only understand the individual meanings of words, and ignore the meanings of idioms and phrases; Look up a new word in the dictionary; In order to understand a certain meaning, read the previous content repeatedly and so on. These bad habits will inevitably affect the coherence of thinking, leading to the loss of one thing and the lack of overall understanding of reading materials.

2. Limited reading training.

Time-limited reading is to limit the reading time of materials according to the content, difficulty and length of materials, and referring to the requirements of reading speed of each grade in the syllabus. For example, materials of about 250 words are limited to about 5 minutes. Controlling time is conducive to tapping students' reading ability, forcing students to race against time and concentrate on reading.

3. Find the topic sentence, understand the key points and grasp the full text.

Most reading materials have topic sentences to explain the main idea of the article, and other words are generally explained around topic sentences. Some topic sentences are at the beginning of the article, some at the end of the article and some topic sentences appear in the middle of the article. If you can grasp these sentences when reading, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the reading speed and understanding effect. Generally speaking, topic sentences often use deduction at the beginning of the article; In inductive articles, topic sentences are usually at the end.

Third, we should cultivate the ability of word meaning inference.

It is inevitable to encounter new words in reading. If you look up unfamiliar words every time, it will affect the reading speed and understanding effect. Therefore, we should be good at inferring the meaning of some words and phrases according to the context in reading.

1. Infer word meaning according to word formation.

A certain knowledge of word formation will help us to read. For example, don't make any unreasonable demands on employers.

The government is unreasonable. Sentence is a new word, but through its composition "un+reason+able", we can easily infer that it means "unreasonable, unreasonable and excessive".

2. Infer the meaning of words according to the comparison of contexts.

Sometimes synonyms or antonyms of a new word may appear at the same time in writing. At this time, we can guess the meaning of a word by comparing the context. For example, if

Say "yes" if you agree, and say "yes" if you disagree.

According to two groups of relative words, yes and no, agree and reject, it is not difficult to infer that reject means "disagree".

3. Infer the meaning of words according to the explanations in the text.

Sometimes, new words are annotated or explained, and we should be good at capturing this information in reading. For example, a reporter is a person who works for the media.

Newspapers or magazines and write articles for them.

It ... This sentence is specially used to explain journalists, and it is not difficult to infer its meaning as a "reporter" through explanation.

4. Infer the meaning of words according to the logical relationship between contexts.

He is so.

Miserable, he never gives anything to others, even his friends or

In this case, stingy is a new word, but according to the understanding of the result clause, stingy means "stingy"

Fourth, we must grasp long and difficult sentences.

The so-called long and difficult sentences refer to sentences with slightly complicated structures. As long as you are good at analyzing and sorting out the structure, the difficulties will be solved.

1. Structural analysis and understanding methods.

Structural analysis and understanding method refers to the method of quickly understanding the sentence structure, grasping the basic framework of the sentence and then understanding the sentence by analyzing the grammatical structure of the sentence. Specifically, it can be divided into two steps: the first step is to judge whether a sentence is a simple sentence, a complex sentence or a complex sentence; The second step is to find out the core or components of the sentence, that is, the subject and the predicate verb, and then distinguish some subordinate components in the sentence. For example, if you press

Another key is that your meal is prepared for you and heated; Then it started.

Follow a small railway line to your seat in front of the TV.

You don't even have to stand up when you get what you need. This is a coordinate compound sentence with clauses before and after the semicolon: the semicolon is preceded by a compound sentence with conditional adverbial clauses, and the main part is your.

The meal has been prepared and heated for you; A semicolon is followed by a compound sentence with two adverbial clauses and an object clause.

This leads to the adverbial clause of result.

What you get is an adverbial clause of time. What?

What you need is an object clause to act as the object of the verb get. In this way, the context of the whole sentence is clear, and the meaning of the sentence is naturally clear.

2. Meaning group reading method.

Meaning group reading is a method of connecting several words related in meaning and grammatical structure into relatively complete information and inputting them into the brain in groups. Reading in this way can not only improve the reading speed, but also help to understand the whole sentence. For example: When?

Two cars traveling at 30 mph collide (1), and a driver (2) who is not wearing a seat belt will meet.

Windshield (3), whose acting force is equivalent to that from A.

The height is10m (4). In this sentence, (1) is an adverbial clause of time, and (2) is a prepositional phrase used as an adverbial to modify the predicate verb. Thus, the whole sentence is divided into four reading units, which greatly improves the reading speed and understanding effect.

In a word, reading is a comprehensive language practice. Only by reading a lot in and out of class, mastering certain reading skills and using reading methods correctly can we effectively improve our reading comprehension.