When we begin to study English as a foreign language,we oftenfeel that the lack of reading skill always makes to us lot of troubles tothe complete comprehension:we may meet with too many unfamiliarwords;we may find that we are lost in the middle of a sentence;whenthe sentence structure is a little bit too complicated;sometimes when weread a long material,though it is in plain words and simple sentencestructure,still we are likely to fail to catch the implied meaning.Inorder to raise our reading level,I plan to give some suggestions onimproving reading in this paper.I.Word Study