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he first piece of advice that will be given here is to do as much reading as the students can. College students in the school can make use of the library resources to support their study and self-learning. The kinds of resources include English books, English journal articles, English magazines, etc., as well as a wide range of library services. Now thousands of books, magazines, journal articles and newspapers have electrical versions. It is no doubt that the college students’ task will be much easier if they know some websites they really want to find online. 3.2 Improving your English reading strategies 3.2.1 Choice reading Choice reading is very important. Actually it is a process of selecting English materials. The reader should clearly recognize the classification of the English books and should certainly know which type of English book he is reading. It is best if the reader know his purpose of reading before reading starts. It means that the reader should turn his attention to practical goals. To receive the information, the reader can read not only the book title, the subtitle, the table of contents, but also the author's preface, the abstract introduction and the index. These are all the information that authors want to transmit to the reader. According to these clues, the college students can choose different types of English reading materials with the different demands. The college students should also be aware that different reading skills should be adopted when the English reading material are different. 3.2.2 How to select English sources In order to get useful information, the college students had better answer the following two questions: How well those English sources meet the purpose of reading? How reliably the author presents those ideas and information in the book? The college students have better read things they are interested in so that the hard work required for comprehension will seem much more pleasurable．Also，the college students will be much more eager to understand what they are reading，not only as a means to improve their reading comprehension，but also as a means to better understand the interesting subject-matter. The process of selecting an English source includes examining its publisher, its reference and its author(s). Depending on the reader’s purpose of reading, it can also involve assessing timeliness. Some ways of selecting English sources are follows: (i) Pay more attention to the timeliness When a book is published, it always has a special social background. For example, if a reader wants to find some information about computers, he’d better check the materials published after 1940s. (ii) Evaluating the publisher of an English book Experienced readers may have some information about a book’s publisher. He may know the book that is published by an individual, an organization or government agency. Generally speaking, authors and publishers usually have a bias about a particular topic or issue. When the publisher is a scholarly or professional journal, the reader can often gain an understanding of what kinds of articles it publishes by looking over the contents of several issues of the journal or by reading a few of the articles found within it. It is very important for the English majors to know some famous publishers of the English-speaking countries. （iii）Evaluating the relevance of an English book If a reader reads with a def