Transcript What is a M.C. Cloze?

Section C – Reading and
Language System
What is a M.C. Cloze?
A M.C. Cloze …
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M.C. Questions
Asking for a word or a phrase
So it is mostly asking for vocabulary and
grammar in context
But still, we have to know
•Writer’s purpose (from title, source
to know the choice of vocabulary
•Situation (from topic)
to understand the context
Developing M.C. Cloze Skills
The objective is to recreate a
meaningful text by choosing the best
option to fill in the blank.
 We search for meaning, not just a word.
 It is a search for a word that has the
right meaning in the context in which it
is used.
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What to do?
1. Look at the title and the source
style and language
2. Then, a quick skimming of the passage
general idea of the context
*1st reading
* Do not look at the options yet
3. 2nd reading
a. Look at the context of the missing words
b. If the missing word is a vocabulary
negative meaning?
positive meaning?
c. What kind of word?
Verb (tense)?
Noun? (Singular? Plural?)
Form (Gerunds? Infinitives?)
Relative Pronoun? Preposition?
d. Look at the options – guessing and elimination
Any more clues?
•Context (identify the clues by context) (justify
the choice as a result of the clues)
•Should very often be an immediate context
(exception though)
•Locate grammatical and discourse markers to
anticipate the correct words and form of that word)
How many different types of questions?
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Most of them are testing students’ knowledge of
how one particular word is used
Others are on how the word functioned in a
phrase
* What to do with the
combined MC questions?
E.g. A. I only
B. II only
C. I & III only
D. All of the above
1. check I first
2. if I is correct, eliminate all choices that
do not have I ( x A, x C)
3. check IV first
4. if IV is correct, then only D is
correct..