“只见树木,不见林”这句话贴切地反映了中国学生阅读英语文章的通病,即只注重逐字逐句地阅读,忽视文章的整体性——段落与篇章结构问题,这样的阅读只局限于对文章的词与句子的理解上,不能做到把全文融汇贯通,甚至误解作者原意,更谈不上阅读速度的提高了.针对学生的这种弱点,我在教学中采取了以下两个步骤:第一步,英语段落是文章的基础,训练学生阅读英语文章就应从训练阅读段落开始.在阅读中,向学生说明英语文章段落的作用及特点.英语文章段落的作用之一在于帮助作者与 The phrase “I saw only trees, I do not see the forest” aptly reflects the common problem of Chinese students reading English articles, that is, they only focus on verbatim reading and neglect the integrity of the articles - paragraphs and structure of texts. Such reading is limited to Articles on the understanding of the word and sentence, can not be done to the full text of the lessons learned, or even misunderstood the original intention of the author, not to mention the reading speed improvement.For students of this weakness, I took the following two steps in teaching : The first step, the English passage is the basis of the article, training students to read English articles should start from the training reading paragraph .In reading, to explain to students the role and characteristics of English passages of the passage.English articles passage is to help the author and