简明英语测试教程Lecture 05.ppt

4.3 Matching 4.4 Information transfer 4.5 Ordering tasks 4.6 Fill-in and Cloze 4.6.1 Fill-in 4.6.2 Gap-filling By ‘matching’, we mean items where students are given a list of possible answers which they have to match with some other list of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or visual clues. The 2,000 word level 1 copy 2 event _____ end or highest point 3 motor _____ this moves a car 4 pity _____ thing made to be like 5 profit another 6 tip ? Information transfer is used most in reading and listening comprehension tasks. Candidates usually have to transfer material from the text on to a chart, table, form or map. Sometimes the answers consist of just names and numbers, and can be marked objectively. Sometimes they take the form of phrases and short sentences and have to be marked more subjectively. One of the main problems with information transfer questions is that the task can be very complicated. Another problem is that the task may be culturally or cognitively biased. In an ordering task candidates are asked to put a group of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs in order. Almost all ordering tasks are difficult to construct because it is not easy to provide words or phrases which only make sense in one order. Put the following words in order to complete the sentence: She gave _____________________________________. book her yesterday mother the to Even more difficult to construct are items where sentences or paragraphs have to be rearranged. Sentence D comes first in the correct order, so D has been written beside the number 1. it was called ‘The Last Waltz’ 1 _D_ the street was in total darkness 2 ___ because it was one he and Richard had learnt at school 3 ___ Peter looked outside 4 ___ He recognized the tune 5 ___ and it seemed deserted 6 ___ he thought he heard someone whistling