Reading practice is the important part of English learning.Reading abilities are the foundation of listening,speaking,writing and translating.Teaching of vocational English reading is the effective way to foster student's abilities of getting all kinds of information through English and possess vocational professional skills and communicative abilities.On the basis of analyzing the status quo of the teaching of vocational English reading,the writer points out that the main problems lie in inappropriate courses,out—dated teaching method and teaching pattern of reading,and students'bad reading habits.For these problems,the author puts forward some suggestion on how to improve students'reading abilities.