阅读是掌握语言知识、打好语言基础、获取信息的重要渠道。阅读能力是大部分大学生今后工作所需要的语言技能。如何有效地提高学生的阅读能力是广大外语教师力求解决的问题 ,本文将从英汉文化差异在词汇、句法及篇章结构等方面的不同表现进行探索和研究 ,以期迅速提高学生们的阅读理解能力 Reading is an important channel to master language knowledge, lay a good foundation for language and obtain information. Reading skills are the language skills most college students need for their future work. How to effectively improve students ’reading ability is a problem most foreign language teachers try to solve. This paper explores and studies the different manifestations of English and Chinese cultural differences in terms of vocabulary, syntax and text structure in order to rapidly improve students’ reading comprehension