Abstract
Language testing never appears in isolation,it serves and is served by language teaching.The purpose of English teaching is to cultivate students' abilities to communicate in English.It seems that there are as many teaching approaches as language testing methods.Nowadays,communicative language teaching has increasingly dominated foreign teaching field,communicative language testing draws high attention accordingly.This discussion mainly focuses on the two characteristics of authenticity and interactiveness behind communicative language testing,by analysis of the nature of this testing method and the development trend of the times,providing an significant reference for university English reading testing in the years to come.