The cultivation of critical reading ability is the result of the combination of critical thinking and college English teaching. This paper mainly studies how to integrate the cultivation of critical thinking into college English teaching so as to improve the critical reading ability of non-English majors. First of all, starting from the meaning of critical reading, this paper expounds the importance of critical reading mode and specific teaching cases of English critical reading teaching, so as to provide references and specific teaching support for the cultivation of college English critical reading ability.