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Introduction In learning a language, especially a foreign language, reading is a very important link. We can get information from passages through reading; I have taught English in middle schools for three years. In final exams, the marks of reading are about one third of all the marks. But most of the students are afraid of reading. They are so nervous that they don’t want to read the passages as soon as they see them. So they do worse and worse in reading. Some students can’t do reading tasks well because of their limited vocabulary, some because of the absence of necessary knowledge background; still many of them don’t have the inferring and judging ability according to the context while reading. They know every word of the sentence. Let alone the real meaning according to the whole passage. Of course, others can’t understand because they don’t know the real meaning of a certain word in the sentence. That is to say, they haven’t mastered the word which may have more than one meaning. All these factors lead to their ability to understand the text. So they feel dull to do reading tasks. They can’t intentionality read. How to enhance the reading ability through organizing reading class well is very important. How to enhance the effect of teaching, training the reading ability is an important question. Some scholars pay a lot of attention to the theory of reading. Much work has been done about these questions: what elements does reading comprehension involve? What’s the relationship between the background knowledge and the language in reading，etc? Literature Review Usually reading is taught passively. The students are not keen on it. They just read it because they have to. Generally teaching of reading can be divided into three kinds. They reflect the three stages of the development of reading theory. Firstly “bottom-up” pattern was produced in the 1960s. It was in accordance with the article. It was from lower words decoding to obtaining information. The representat