The content of the exam includes five parts: reading comprehension, word usage and grammatical structure, finding mistakes, cloze and English-Chinese translation. All topics are numbered in a unified way, ***85 questions.
Part I: Part I Reading Comprehension, *** 15, the examination time is 40 minutes.
Candidates are required to read three short essays with a total reading of no more than 900 words. The principle of selecting materials for essay writing is:
1, a wide range of topics. Including biographies, society, culture, daily knowledge, hot topics and popular science knowledge. But the background knowledge involved should be understood by students.
2. Various schools. Including narrative, expository, argumentative and so on.
The language difficulty of this article is moderate. If the key words that can't be guessed and affect understanding are beyond the vocabulary 1-3 level of Full-time Arts and Sciences Syllabus, the meaning of the word should be marked in Chinese.
The reading comprehension section mainly tests the following abilities of candidates:
1, to master the main idea of the materials read;
2. Understand the facts and details that explain the main idea and general idea;
3, not only understand the literal meaning, but also make certain judgments and inferences based on the materials read;
4. We should not only understand the meaning of a single sentence, but also understand the logical relationship of the context to some extent.
The reading comprehension part mainly examines students' ability to obtain information through reading, which requires accuracy and speed.
Part II: Word Usage and Grammatical Structure (Part II Vocal Music and Structure), with 30 questions, and the examination time is 25 minutes. 50% of the topics are the usage of words and phrases, and 50% are grammatical structures. Candidates are required to choose the best answer from the four options of each question.
The scope of the examination includes the main contents of the vocabulary and grammar structure table 1-3 in the syllabus of full-time undergraduate courses in arts and sciences.
Part III Identification: ** 10 questions, examination time 10 minutes. Picking the wrong questions consists of 10 simple sentences. The scope of the examination is the same as the second part.
Part IV: Cloze (Part IV), ***20 questions, test time 15 minutes. Cloze is to leave 20 spaces in a short essay (about 200 words) with familiar subject matter and moderate difficulty.
The cloze part mainly examines students' comprehensive language use ability.
The fifth part is translation, *** 10, and the examination time is 30 minutes. Translation test consists of two parts.