diff --git a/PaddleRec/word2vec/README.md b/PaddleRec/word2vec/README.md
index b0ebf74036edb25c30a9014c4f80a6f50e79c3d1..35d749b5c1ef8859c4e88da4f5d171269e66c2b5 100644
--- a/PaddleRec/word2vec/README.md
+++ b/PaddleRec/word2vec/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 ```bash
 mkdir data
 wget http://www.statmt.org/lm-benchmark/1-billion-word-language-modeling-benchmark-r13output.tar.gz
-tar xzvf 1-billion-word-language-modeling-benchmark-r13output.tar
+tar xzvf 1-billion-word-language-modeling-benchmark-r13output.tar.gz
 mv 1-billion-word-language-modeling-benchmark-r13output/training-monolingual.tokenized.shuffled/ data/
 ```