Fast reading 10%
The listening ability was 15% respectively.
10%
10%
Choose words to fill in the blanks 5%
2 reading 20%
Gestalt 10%
Translation 5%
As far as the language ability is concerned, the CET-4 in the pilot stage consists of the following four parts: 1) Listening comprehension; 2) Reading comprehension; 3) cloze or correct mistakes; 4) Writing and translation.
Listening comprehension scores accounted for 35%; Among them, listening dialogue 15% and listening passage 20%. The listening dialogue part includes listening comprehension of short dialogue and long dialogue; The listening part includes short comprehension of selected questions and compound dictation.
Reading comprehension accounts for 35%; Among them, the reading part (reading
exist
Depth) 25%, skimming
and
Scan) 10%. The close reading part is divided into: a) text reading comprehension of multiple-choice questions; B) Lexical understanding at the textual level (Banked
Cloze) or short question and answer (short
answer
The fast reading comprehension section tests the ability to browse and search.
The score of cloze or error correction is 10%. The cloze part uses multiple-choice questions, and the requirement for correcting mistakes is to find and correct mistakes.
Writing and translation scores account for 20%; Among them, writing 15% and translation 5%. Writing styles include argumentative writing, expository writing and practical writing. The translation part tests the Chinese-English translation ability at the level of sentences, phrases or common words.
See table 1 for the contents, types and scores of each part of CET-4 in the pilot stage:
Table 1: Contents, types and percentage of scores of each part of CET-4 in the pilot stage.
Composition of test paper
Test content
Test question
proportion
aural comprehension
Listening dialogue
Short dialogue
multiple-choice
35%
Long dialogue
multiple-choice
Listening passage
Short passage comprehension
multiple-choice
multiple-choice
Compound dictation
reading comprehension
Read and understand carefully
Text reading comprehension
multiple-choice
35%
Lexical understanding of discourse
Cloze in groups
Fast reading comprehension
True or false+fill in the blanks or something else.
Gestalt
or
word
Gestalt
Either correct multiple choices or identify errors and correct them.
10%
Writing and translation
writing
Thesis Writing
20%
translate
Chinese-English translation
In the pilot stage, the report on individual scores of CET-4 is divided into four parts: listening (35%), reading (35%), cloze or error correction (10%), composition and translation (20%). The full marks of each personal report are: listening 249, reading 249, cloze or error correction 70, composition 142. The sum of the items is equal to the total score (7 10).