| Reading in different periods of lifetime can be divided into categories as comprehensive reading, compulsory reading efficient reading professional reading and scientific research reading. This paper will provide a brief account about the compulsory reading needed by high school students. In the very beginning of this paper, the author tries to define the skilled reading ability form three aspects, that is, "seven goals" "five abilities" and "Mr. Hu Shi's" "standards" which are supposal to accomplish. In this paper, the author makes a definite and vivid expression about compulsory reading by quoting from historical thinkers, educationalists and scholars. Observing and analyzing basic old Chinese textbooks reading viewpoints summarized by about 20 scholars who are skilled in reading, and their reading material, he divides reading into two parts e.g, selective reading and extensive reading, and also passage reading and book reading for teenagers especially high middle school student. He, meanwhile converts old Chinese reading books to modern Chinese according to proportion 1:2, which is considered convenient to make statistics about characters, and then he sums up some groups of figures. This figures are: more than 50 texts and 3,270,000 characters for selective reading during the 9-year compulsory education and high school phrase; 2,750,000 characters for selective reading in high-school Chinese-reading books; 15,000,000 characters for teenager's necessary extensive reading suggested by scholars; 14,140,000 characters for high-school students extra extensive reading based on New Course Standards; 10,000,000-20,000,000 characters for scholars and students before 20 to read. According to these figures the conclusion can be drawnthat about 20,000,000 characters are needed for high-school students to read, Among them are 5,000,000-6,000,000 characters' passage reading for necessary selective reading and 15,000,000 characters book reading for necessary extensive reading.
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