, only one of which is correct. It is common to have items corresponding to specific section of the text, but there also may be items to test comprehension of the text as the whole. Supporting tasks:
. This type of multiple-choice is used for understanding the main idea. For this purpose we can also use matching tasks.is the writer complaining about in the letter: Buses are becoming more crowded.Bus stops are poorly maintained.Adults can be thoughtless on buses.Children should be more polit e on buses. [4, p.29] skill here is reading for gist or skimming. Students need to read the text through from beginning to end. p align="justify">. The task to recognize the writer s attitude and opinion. The answer will not usually be stated explicity at any one point in the text. An appreciation of the writer s attitude or opinion depends on picking up the meaning of adverbs and modal expressions that may be scattered throughout the text.writer thinks that the companies who advertise on the Internetshould be more carefully monitored; never sell quality products; are more common; try to exploit their customers. [4, p.30]
. The task is to recognise the tone. In order to be familiar with the tone, students should read the text carefully and pay attention to the details.comments on this story: admiring; critical; slightly dismissive; excited. [4, p.30] choice test as usual include different types of multiple-choice tasks.or false statementsis another task type which is familiar to most of the students. They are given a text and a list of questions to it. Candidates determine whether the statements are correct or incorrect, according to the text. Sometimes the third option is included ( not given or not known ), for case where the text does not give the reader enough information to determine whether a statementas true or false. The true or false test, however, has two main disadvantages: firstly it can encourage guessing, since testees have 50 per cent chance of giving correct answer for each item. Secondly, as the base score is 50 per cent and thus the average text difficulty general in the region of 75 per cent, the test may fell to discriminate widely enough among the testees unless there are a lot of items [12, p.222] . example: the text and decide whether the statements below are true or false.
There were tales of people who scrape salt from dirty plates back into the salt-cellar, retrieve cloves from eaten apple pies, save lemon slices from dirty glasses and preserve them in water to be reused later, or put used paper tissues to dry on the radiator. Life with a Scrooge is not a lot of fun. p align="justify"> 1. Life with a Scrooge is boring T/F
