The reasons that the students fail to understand the meaning of the sentences are the long sentences and too many new words. In this case, teachers firstly remind the students of realizing that reading is not for understanding the exactly meaning of every word, in addition, they need to tell the students that many sentences have many redundant elements which are just for helping to understand. Therefore, those parts can be neglected without influencing the meaning understanding to the sentences. Therefore, the correct viewpoint in reading the difficult long sentences should be to seize the most important body part of the sentences and jump the other parts.

Of course, before you learn how to jump, you need to know which part is the important and which can be omitted. If the students meet some coordinating similar words in sentences when they learn Chinese, it is enough for them to understand one of them because the others are just for emphasizing the atmosphere or condition. Therefore, the other words can be jumped over. For example, in the sentence 听到这个不幸的消息，他心里充满了悲伤、沮丧和绝望, the last three words almost express the same meaning.

In a very long sentence, the examples often appear to illustrate the point of the sentence. Some exampling parts are not necessary to read. However, if there are no words for summarizing the sentences at the beginning and in the end of sentences, they need to pay some attention to read and give a brief summarization like 在北京，他游览了故宫、长城、十三陵、天坛、颐和园、北海.

In addition, when you attend to one-on-one Chinese learning programs, teachers would tell you that the parts without special meanings in the sentences or the quotation parts also can be neglected. The quotations are used for decorating the sentences but hard for foreigners to understand totally. Therefore, some of them can be jumped. In some cases, you can naturally associate the meanings as soon as you read the topics of sentences. You can also jump them like the middle part of the sentence广州的秋天，天气晴朗、阳光灿烂、雨量适中、风景秀丽、空气清新，是一年中最好的季节.