The purpose of adult English teaching is to cultivate students' strong reading ability, certain English-Chinese translation ability and preliminary listening ability, so that they can use English as a tool to obtain the information they need for their majors and lay a good foundation for further improving their English level. To this end, this exam mainly examines students' language use ability, focusing on students' reading ability and proficiency in grammatical structure and words. This exam is standardized. Due to the lack of oral test conditions, only written tests are conducted at present. The examination scope mainly refers to most of the contents except oral skills stipulated in the English syllabus for full-time liberal arts undergraduates. In the design of questions, except for the subjective part of English-Chinese translation, other questions are in the form of objective multiple-choice questions. When the conditions are ripe, we will increase the content of listening and composition as appropriate.
The exam is held twice a year, in April and June, respectively, 165438+ 10, and each exam lasts for two hours, that is, from 9:00 am to 1 1: 00 am. The examination is conducted by the Higher Education Department of Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and the examination work is implemented by Beijing Education Comprehensive Service Center.
Examination content:
This test consists of five parts: reading comprehension, word usage and grammatical structure, finding the wrong words, 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. There are five questions at the end of each article, and candidates should choose the best answer from the four options of each question according to the content of the article. 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 part of word usage and grammatical structure mainly examines students' ability to use words, phrases and grammatical structures. 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. Each sentence contains four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D, one of which is wrong. Candidates are required to pick out the wrong part from the four underlined parts. The fault-finding part is an extension of word usage and grammatical structure, aiming at testing students' mastery of vocabulary, phrases and grammatical structure, with emphasis on fixed collocation and sentence patterns. 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. Each blank is a question, and each question has four options. Candidates are required to choose the best answer on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of the content, so that the structure and meaning of the essay can be restored. Fill-in-the-blank options include structural words and notional words, and some options will involve some important grammatical content.
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. The first part is English-Chinese translation, which requires candidates to translate five underlined sentences from previous reading comprehension articles into Chinese. The second part is Chinese-English translation, which requires candidates to translate five Chinese sentences with moderate difficulty into English. The sentences in English-Chinese translation and Chinese-English translation are not as difficult as the English articles in the text. The grading standard requires that there are no major language errors when the translation expresses its meaning.
The translation part mainly examines students' comprehensive ability to use language in vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns.
Answering and grading methods
The objective questions are marked by machine, requiring candidates to choose the best answer from the four options of each question, and draw a horizontal line in the middle of the letters in the corresponding part of the answer sheet with a pencil. Only one answer can be selected for each question. If more than one answer is invalid, the question will be zero. Multiple-choice scoring is only the number of correct questions, and there is no deduction for wrong answers. Subjective translation questions are graded according to scientific grading standards, and the answers must be written on the attached answer sheet.
The whole set of questions * * * is 100, and 60 is the passing standard. All candidates who meet the qualified standards will be awarded the certificate of English level 3 for adult education.