What is a M.C. Cloze?

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What is a M.C. Cloze?
Section C Reading and Language System
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A M.C. Cloze

• 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
• Writers purpose (from title, source
• to know the choice of vocabulary
• Situation (from topic)
• to understand the context

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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?

• 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?

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• 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)

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How many different types of questions?

• Most of them are testing students knowledge of
  how one particular word is used
• Others are on how the word functioned in a phrase

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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..