2。 Literature Review 

The new curriculum standard clearly points out English curriculum in junior high school should be based on the needs and characteristics of students , it should be set not only for the further development of students' basic language skills, but also for the improvement of students’ abilities of obtaining information, using information and analyzing and dealing with problem and so on。 It should also develop students' ability of thinking and expressing in English gradually,creating the necessary conditions for further study。论文网

There are the specific objectives of the curriculum reform。 

It aims to change the tendency of too much emphasis on knowledge imparting, it emphasizes on the formation of active learning attitude, so that the process of obtaining basic knowledge and basic skills can also be the process of learning to learn and forming the correct values。 It aims to change the phenomena of too much emohasis on subject standard, too many subjects and lack of integration。 And it sets integrated curriculum to adapt to the needs of different regions and the development of students, reflecting equilibrium of curriculum structure。 

It aims to strengthen the link between student's life and modern society and the development of science and technology, it pays attention to the students' interest in learning and experience, the selection of lifelong learning necessary knowledge and skill。 It aims to change the phenomena of too much emphasis on receptive learning, rote, mechanical training, it advocates students' active participation, diligent hands, and trains students’ abilities of collecting and processing information, obtaining new knowledge, analyzing and solving with problems and so on。 

As an important component of language skills and one of the main parts of the language input, English reading occupies an important position of English teaching。 As a consequence, training students' reading ability is one of the main teaching goals。 Crook, a famous scholar, has repeatedly advocated a lot of reading in English as main means of English Teaching。 Therefore, under the effect of the new curriculum standard, the goal of English reading class in junior high school is the emphasis on the cultivation of language ability, the improvement of ability of English reading comprehension and the ability of analysis judgment, to enable students to put the knowledge of English into practical use。

Thankfully, there have been many scholars research and explore problems and countermeasures of English reading class in junior high schools。 Thompson Sylvia presented that the main task of practice teaching of English Reading is to train students’ independent reading ability and good reading habits。 The principle of selecting reading materials, the scope of selection and the organization of teaching are essential to effective practice teaching (Thompson Sylvia 97)。 

Perfetti Charles A reviews the current database imperfect behind the status quo of college English reading, and put forward the use of network resources to establish a modern, fast and convenient new database of college English reading, and develop a platform for English reading (Perfetti Charles A 39)。 Robertson Phyllis discusses the application of context theory in English teaching of reading, including some problems met in reading comprehension test and some teaching methods related to context theory。

He Zhaoying points out one of the bottleneck and breakthrough of English teaching class is reading, and he explained that the students' limited intelligence caused by insufficient amount of reading。 Therefore in addition to the necessary amount of vocabulary which is required by teaching materials, the seventh goal of the new curriculum standard is required for 23 million words (He Zhaoying 87)。

Zhang Wei and Zhu Jiexiang both analyze problems of English reading class in the aspects of teachers and students。Teachers improve themselves from the monotonous teaching model and isolated grammar class and limited level of cultural knowledge。Students are in progress for changing from lacking enough language knowledge, reading strategies and cultural knowledge ( Zhang Wei 45; Zhu Jiexiang 67) 。