2007 postgraduate entrance exam English Cloze Test and Blank Filling Reading (7 out of 5)

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Features: Cloze test is absolutely not about guessing based on "feel," but rather requires a rational set of problem-solving methods grounded in a deep understanding of the principles behind cloze test question design. Many examinees, despite being very familiar with cloze tests, have never grasped the fundamental principles and intrinsic characteristics of cloze test question design at a deeper level. As a result, when solving cloze test questions, they can only rely on "feel" to guess answers, and this "feel-based" approach to solving problems is precisely contrary to the question-setting logic of cloze tests. The test setters' "painstaking" design of 20 blanks within a self-contained, complete article is not to expect examinees to ignore the structure and layout of the cloze passage or the inherent relationships within the context, relying solely on "feel" to guess answers directly. This book introduces to a broad range of examinees a completely new approach and method for solving cloze tests—the "Clue Analysis Locating Method" (also known as "Clue-Based Cloze Solving"): that is, the test setters design 20 blanks within an article, and the cloze passage contains both unknown information (the 20 blanks) and known information. For each blank, the test setter has set up the necessary known clues to solve it, and these clues are distributed within the known information of the passage. Therefore, to solve an unknown blank, one must first locate all the known information points (clues) in the passage that are related to this unknown blank. By analyzing and summarizing these known information points, one can follow the clues to deduce the answer to the unknown blank. This problem-solving method requires examinees to conduct layered analysis, from the overall structure and layout of the passage to the contextual relationships and even the internal structure of sentences, training them to locate relevant known clues for each unknown blank at various levels. Thus, this method is entirely consistent with the question-setting logic and principles of cloze tests.