Modern literature reading is a type of reading comprehension of modern literature works. It usually requires the reader to understand the author's intention, theme, emotion and other information according to the given text content. Modern literature reading was a common topic in the Chinese language examination, and it was also an important way to improve reading ability. The method of solving problems in modern literature reading generally included the following steps: 1. Understand the theme and gist of the article. By analyzing the content, structure, and language style of the article, one could determine the theme and gist of the article. 2. Understand the author's intentions. By analyzing the content and structure of the article, one could infer the author's intentions and thoughts. 3. analyze the language style of the article. Modern articles usually use a more vernacular language style, so it is necessary to analyze the language characteristics of the article, such as expression, rhetoric, logical relationship, etc. 4. Inferring from the context. By analyzing the context of the article, one could infer the meaning of some keywords and understand the content of the article. 5. Summing up the answers. Through the summary of the article, the information in the article was sorted out and summarized to form their own answers. In order to improve the reading ability of modern literature, readers can read more excellent modern literature works, pay attention to accumulating language knowledge and literary knowledge, and think more and analyze to continuously improve their reading ability.