本文考察了兴趣对文章理解的作用。首先重新探讨了兴趣的本质和文章理解的心理过程，然后提出了下列实验饺设：（1)兴趣对文章的理解有显著的促进作用，而且这种作用不因理解测验的类型而有赝的变化；⑵兴趣髙的读者在阀读中会表現出更钱的理解监控能力，并进行更多合理的推论；（3)在对文章进行深度理解时，兴趣的促进作用更大；⑷ 兴趣对文童理解的促进作用不能归因于先前知识的影响，为了检验这些假设，作者变化理解測验的类型，进行了三項实验研究，实验结杲基本证实了这些假设.根据实验结果及其理论分忻，可以认为：兴趣对文章理解的这种作用是由于在兴趣高的阅读中，读者改善了文章图式的构建过程，从而提高了文章理解的程度。

The present study investigated the influence of interest on text comprehension. The nature of interest and the mental process of text comprehension were first discussed. Then the following hypotheses were proposed: (1) interest has a positive influence on text comprehension, which is independent of the test type; (2) in the course of reading, readers with high interest show higher natacognitive capability, and they more of ten infer reasonably; (3) interest exerts more positive influence on text comprehension when deeper understanding is required;(4) the effect of interest is not due tc prior knowledge.To test these hypotheses, three experiments were performed by varying the type of comprehension test. The four hypotheses were basically confirmed by the exper iirental results. According to these results and theoretic analyses, it could be concluded that the effect of interest on text comprehension is perhaps due to the improvement of the process of constructing text schema, which leads text comprehension to a higher level.