| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-9页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第9-16页 |
| ·Background of the Problem | 第9-13页 |
| ·Current problems in high school English teaching | 第10-12页 |
| ·Current research situations | 第12-13页 |
| ·The importance of cross-culture teaching | 第13-14页 |
| ·The importance of cross-culture teaching | 第13-14页 |
| ·What does culture learning can help us? | 第14页 |
| ·The need to develop intercultural competence | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-26页 |
| ·The characteristics of language | 第16页 |
| ·Definition of language | 第16页 |
| ·Nature of language | 第16页 |
| ·What is culture? | 第16-18页 |
| ·Definitions of culture | 第16-17页 |
| ·Functions of culture and its characteristics | 第17-18页 |
| ·Relationship between language and culture | 第18-19页 |
| ·About intercultural communication | 第19-20页 |
| ·Definition of communication | 第19页 |
| ·Definition of intercultural communication and its elements | 第19-20页 |
| ·Necessity of developing intercultural communicative competence | 第20-23页 |
| ·The aims and tasks set by the syllabus | 第22页 |
| ·The importance of culture instruction in English teaching | 第22-23页 |
| ·About Reading | 第23-26页 |
| CHAPTER III CONTENT AND PROBLEMS IN TEACHING ENGLISH READING | 第26-32页 |
| ·Deriving cultural connotations | 第26-28页 |
| ·Cultural connotations of words | 第26-27页 |
| ·Cultural connotations of idioms | 第27页 |
| ·Cultural connotations of proverbs | 第27-28页 |
| ·Potential problems in intercultural communication | 第28-29页 |
| ·Contents for culture teaching | 第29-32页 |
| CHAPTER IV METHODS OF IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION | 第32-50页 |
| ·The pre-reading stage | 第32-38页 |
| ·The while-reading stage | 第38-44页 |
| ·Skimming, scanning and topic sentence | 第38-41页 |
| ·Guessing unknown words | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Post-reading Stage | 第44-48页 |
| ·Comprehension questions | 第44-46页 |
| ·Summarizing | 第46页 |
| ·The quantitative and qualitative changes | 第46-48页 |
| ·What should our teachers do? | 第48-50页 |
| CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION | 第50-52页 |
| Reference | 第52-54页 |
