英语阅读是一种复杂能动的心理过程,它要求读者在具有一定外语基础和相当词汇量的同时,还要具有较快的阅读速度、较强的理解和逻辑推理能力。因此,加强英语阅读课的教学,提高学生的阅读水平是教学大纲的要求,更是社会发展的需要。通过问卷调查,笔者发现:阅读能力的强弱首先取决于阅读者的语言知识和语言交际知识,其次取决于阅读者的认识能力,包括记忆、判断和推理的 English reading is a complex and dynamic psychological process, which requires readers to have a certain foreign language foundation and considerable vocabulary, but also have a faster reading speed, strong understanding and logical reasoning ability. Therefore, strengthening the teaching of English reading class and improving students’ reading level are the requirements of the syllabus, which is more the need of social development. Through questionnaire survey, I found that the strength of reading ability depends firstly on the reader’s linguistic knowledge and linguistic communicative knowledge, and secondly on the reader’s cognitive ability, including memory, judgment and reasoning