《大学英语教学大纲》规定:“大学英语的教学目的就是培养学生较强的阅读能力,一定的听和译的能力以及初步的写和说的能力.”由此可见培养学生阅读能力在大学英语教学中的重要性.在多年的教学实践中我们发现,学生的阅读能力提高最慢,其原因很多,最主要的原因是学生只将注意力集中在所学课本上,而忽视了广泛阅读,因而造成知识面窄、阅读速度慢、理解能力差,严重地影响了阅读能力的提高.实践证明,广泛阅读是提高英语阅读能力的最佳途径. “College English syllabus” provides: “The purpose of college English teaching is to develop students strong reading ability, listening and translating ability as well as a preliminary ability to write and say.” This shows that students develop reading ability in college English The importance of teaching.In many years of teaching practice, we find that the slowest improvement of students’ reading ability is due to many reasons. The most important reason is that students only focus on the textbooks while ignoring their extensive reading, Resulting in a narrow range of knowledge, slow reading speed, poor understanding, seriously affecting the improvement of reading ability.Practice has proved that extensive reading is the best way to improve English reading ability.