思维导图(mind-mapping)是英国学者托尼·巴赞(TonyBuzan)在二十世纪60年代初期创建的思维工具。他认为人类大脑接收的信息可以通过思维导图来呈现,思维导图是运用图形将各级主题的关系用相互隶属的图形以一种分支链形式形象地展示出来,整个思维导图从中心向四周放射,最终又归于一个共同的中心。思维导图在我国英语教学领域,特别是在单词记忆、语法总结方面发挥了较强的功用,但在阅读教学方面的应用还处 Mind-mapping is a thinking tool created by British scholar Tony Buzan in the early 1960s. He believes that the information received by the human brain can be presented through a mind map. The mind map is a graphic display of the relationship between the various levels of the subject with a graphic representation of each other in a branched form. The entire mind map from the center Radiation around, and finally return to a common center. Mind map in the field of English teaching in our country, especially in the memory of words, grammar summary has played a strong function, but in reading teaching applications are still