Preliminary reading: detailed meaning and cohesion
Đã giới thiệu| English | Ý nghĩa |
|---|---|
| attitude/ˈætɪtjuːd/ | A person's viewpoint, feeling or disposition towards someone or something. |
A longer text and missing sentences
- Part 3 gives a text about a teenager who started a recycling club, with five questions about details, opinions and the writer's purpose. Part 4 removes five sentences from another text and asks you to put them back.
- Both test whether you follow meaning across sentences, not just single words.
Part 3: detail, attitude 态度, purpose
- Detail questions follow the order of the text. Attitude questions ask how someone feels: look for words like "worried", "proud", "I wasn't sure".
- The last question often asks about the whole text: "What would the writer say about the club?" — choose the option that fits everything.
Part 4: use the links
- Look before and after each gap: pronouns (it, they, this), linkers (however, also, so) and repeated ideas show where a sentence belongs.
- If the next sentence starts "This made her…", the missing sentence must contain the thing "this" refers to.
"At first, nobody joined the club. ___ By the end of the year, forty students were members." Missing sentence: "So she put up posters and gave a talk in assembly." — it explains the change from nobody to forty.
“At first, nobody joined the club. ___ By the end of the year, forty students were members.” Which sentence fills the gap?
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It explains how membership grew.
If the next sentence begins “This made her proud”, the missing sentence must contain what “____” refers to. (one word)
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Pronouns point back to the missing sentence.
Put the story sentences in order.
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Problem → action → result.
Inference and opinion
- "I wasn't sure it would work, but I'm glad I tried" → she had doubts and is now pleased.
- Separate what people did from what they thought; questions often ask about thoughts.
Action or thought?
Separate what people did from what they thought or felt.
“I wasn't sure it would work, but I'm glad I tried.” How does the speaker feel now?
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Glad shows she is pleased now.
Common mistakes
- Part 4: choosing a sentence that is on the same topic but does not connect to "this" or "they" around the gap.
- Part 3: choosing an option that is true for one paragraph but not the whole text.
In Part 4, any sentence on the same topic as the paragraph can fill the gap.
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It must connect to the words around the gap.
Recap
- Part 3: details in order; watch feeling words; global questions cover the whole text.
- Part 4: use pronouns, linkers and ideas before and after the gap.
Write from a missed bus
- The sentence before the gap is She missed the bus. This delay made her late can follow it.
- This meal was delicious does not refer to the bus. Check the next sentence too.
The line before a gap is She missed the bus. Why can This delay made her late fit, while This meal was delicious does not? What else must you check?
Reference and discourse links place a sentence. Grammar alone, or a fit with only one side of the gap, is not enough.
Which sentence can follow She missed the bus?
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This delay refers to the missed bus. The meal does not. The gap needs the link, not only a possible verb.