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Chapter One   Introduction 

1.1 Background of the Research 
With the rapid development of economy, higher requirements have been put forward on higher vocational and technical Education in recent years in China, especially on the English education  of  the  vocational  colleges.  The  English  Curriculum  Basic  Requirements  for  the Higher  Vocational  and  Technical  Colleges  (Trial)  issued  by  Ministry  of  Education  in  2000 proposed  the  general  goal  of  public  English  curriculum  for  the  stage  of  vocational  and technical colleges. It clearly stated that the aim of the course is to develop students’ practical abilities of language use (Ministry of Education, 2000). The Requirements, which is based on the principle “practicality”, require English teachers to not only inculcate the basic knowledge of English to students, but strengthen their practical abilities of using language. As one of the basic skills of English, reading is an indispensable part of English teaching. Because  of  the  lack  of  natural  language  environment,  the  most  common  way  for  Chinese students  to  learn  English  is  through  reading,  which  is  not  only  a  vital  means  of  language learning,  but  also  an  important  way  of  gaining  information.  Therefore,  it  is  believed  that reading  is  the  most  essential  one  among  the  four  basic  skills.  Because  of  the  importance  of reading,  the  Requirements  also  raised  the  specific  reading  skills  that  higher  vocational  and technical  college  students  are  supposed  to  master,  which  mainly  contain  seven  parts:  1) Students  can  catch  the  main  ideas;  2)  Students  can  grasp  some  detailed  information;  3) Students  can  guess  unfamiliar  words  from  context;  (4)  Students  can  make  inferences according  to  the  context;  5)  Students  can  catch  the  author’s  purposes  and  attitudes;  6) Students can draw conclusions about the passage; 7) Students know how to skim and scan a passage  (Ministry  of  Education,  2000).  According  to  these  seven  parts,  it  is  obvious  to  see that  it  was  students’  discourse  proficiency  that  was  given  much  emphasis.  Undoubtedly, English  teachers  and  students  should  pay  more  attention  to  the  cultivation  of  these  abilities during the teaching and learning process. 
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1.2 Research Questions 
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