高中英语课文教学是培养学生阅读能力的关键环节和重要手段。普通高中《英语课程标准》明确了“阅读”的技能目标是:培养阅读策略,培养语感,特别强调培养学生在阅读过程中获取和处理信息的能力。在多年的英语教学实践中,阅读课一直按照这一目标进行教学设计。然而近几年的江苏省高考对于高中英语阅读理解测试在原有题型的基础上,增加了对文本批判性思考的考查。批判性阅读不但与应试体系密切相关,从长远角度 High school English text teaching is to develop students’ reading ability of the key links and an important means. The General English Curriculum Standard defines the technical goals of Reading as developing a reading strategy and developing a sense of language, with particular emphasis on developing the ability of students to acquire and process information during reading. In many years of English teaching practice, reading class has been teaching in accordance with this goal design. However, in recent years, Jiangsu Province college entrance examination for high school English reading comprehension test on the basis of the original questions, an increase of text critical thinking test. Critical reading is not only closely related to the examination system, in the long run