How to do cloze well

English cloze problem-solving skills are divided into four steps:

1. Read the full text quickly and understand the main idea of the article;

2. Consider the context and echo up and down;

3. concentrate on solving difficulties;

4. Read the full text patiently and review it carefully.

first step

Read the full text quickly, understand the main idea of the article, correctly analyze and summarize the main idea of the article.

Second step

On the basis of understanding the main idea of the article, analyze the words given in each question, consider the context, echo up and down, use logical thinking to reason, and then complete the simple ones first and leave the difficult ones behind according to the phrases, idioms, verb forms and sentence structures that you are most sure and familiar with.

Third step

Read the full text carefully, concentrate on solving the difficulties and filling in the blanks.

Fourth step

After answering the questions, follow the rules from whole to part and from part to whole, and then read the full text patiently, carefully checking whether the selected answers are appropriate, whether the grammar is correct and whether the logical reasoning is reasonable.

Cloze essays generally have no title, but the topic sentence of the essay is often in the first sentence of each paragraph, and sometimes appears in the middle or end of the article.

Topic sentences provide the nature and general idea of the whole article, which is a "window" for in-depth understanding of the whole article, and can even infer the main content of the whole article according to the tense and mood of the sentence.

Attention should be paid to the following points when analyzing:

When you meet a word that needs to be filled in, you should first consider what the word constitutes in the sentence. What is part of speech?

If you need to fill in nouns, you should consider the singular and plural forms and possessive cases of nouns.

If you need to fill in adjectives or adverbs, consider whether to use the original level, comparative level or superlative level.

If you need to fill in verbs, you should consider the tense, voice, personal change and mood of verbs, as well as the general form, passive form and perfect form of non-predicate verbs (infinitive and verb -ing).

If you need to fill in the blanks with prepositions, you should pay attention to the usage of fixed collocation.

If you need to fill in the article, you should pay attention to whether to use the indefinite article or the definite article.

Besides, pay attention to some fixed sentence patterns.