英语教学的主要目的是要全面提高学生的听、说、读、写技能,为此,侧重培养学生的英语阅读理解能力是必不可少的先决条件。因为阅读理解能力是学生英语综合能力的核心。一个学生英语能力的高低很大程度上取决于阅读理解能力的强弱。英语阅读理解题实际上就是对学生的英语语言知识、语言技能和智力的综合测试。如何提高学生的阅读理解能力一直是广大师生研究关注的焦点。经过多年的教学观察和实践,本文就如何提高英语阅读理解能力提出了一些具体的方法。 The main purpose of English teaching is to comprehensively improve the students ’listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Therefore, focusing on developing students’ reading comprehension is an indispensable prerequisite. Because reading comprehension is the core of students’ comprehensive English ability. The level of a student’s English proficiency depends very much on the strength of reading comprehension. English reading comprehension is actually a comprehensive test of students’ English language knowledge, language skills and intelligence. How to improve students’ reading comprehension has always been the focus of research on teachers and students. After years of teaching observation and practice, this article put forward some concrete methods on how to improve the ability of English reading comprehension.