Which of the following is a typical feature of formal writing?
A. Archaic words are usually preferred.
B. The precision of language is a priority.
C. Short and incomplete sentences are preferred.
D. An intimate relationship with the audience is established.
When asking students to arrange the scrambled sentences into a logical paragraph, the teacher is focusing on ( ).
A. reading skills
B. critical think.
C. proofreading skills.
D. textual coherence.
It is suggested that lower-level EFL learners learn to read by reading( )materials.
A. simple and authentic
B. academic and authentic
C. original and classical
D. classical and authentic
Teachers who adopt the ( )model for reading comprehension may start teaching a text by introducing new vocabulary and stniciures.
A. parallel
B. serial
C. top-down
D. bottom-up
When asking students to quickly run their eyes over a whole text to get the gist, we are training their skill of ( ).
A. scanning
B. mapping
C. predicting
D. skimming
.It is suggested that teachers should not interrupt students for error correction when the activity aims at ( ).
A. accuracy
B. fluency
C. complexity
D. cohesion
When a teacher creates a real life situation for his students to discuss,he expects them not to focus on ( )too much.
A. form
B. use
C. meaning
D. function
Which of the following assumptions fails to describe the nature of vocabulary or vocabulary learning?
A. Words are best learned in context.
B. A lexical item can be more than one word.
C. All words in one language have equivalents in another.
D. Learning a word includes learning its form, meaning and use.
( )tells where a person comes from, whereas ( )tells what he does.
A. Dialect;register
B. Style;genre
C. Dialect;style
D. Register;genre
Due to ( )the influence, some Chinese learners of English wrongly passivize
intransitive verbs like “die”,as in "John was died last year".
A. interlingual
B. intercultural
C. intralingual
D. intracultural