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People usually read for information. A study shows that readers usually do search reading in order to find the relevant information for dealing with their work and study. According to the requirement of authenticity that testing forms should accord with students’ real life activities, search reading should be included in CET-4 reading test. On the one hand, it is better to test search reading through long passages due to the nature of search reading, on the other hand, it is believed that long passages test different reading abilities from short passages. Therefore, a reading test should include both long passages and short passages.The main purpose of my research is to find out the proper ratio of long passages and short passages in a reading test in a paper which consists of one long passage with about 1500 words and three short passages with 897 words in all. Through the correlation analysis of the final exam and different combinations of one long passage and different number of short passages, the author found out that the proper ratio is 1:2.