Reading and Use of English - Part 6

Reading and Use of English - Part 6

Gapped Text

Looking at Reading and Use of English Part 6

• Text with six gaps (37 - 42). Each gap is for a missing sentence.

• The missing sentences (A - G) are in a list but in the wrong order.

• You have to decide which sentence fills each gap best.

• There is an extra option which you do not need to use.

• Use each sentence only once.

• This part tests your understanding of the overall stucture of the text, and the development of ideas, opinions and events.

Choosing the right answer

In order to put each sentence in the correct place, you must get a good understanding of both the paragraphs and the sentences and decide which ones are closely connected.

• Look at both, the sentence before and in front of the gap.

• A sentence can sometimes fit very well with the previous one but not with the following or vice versa.

Multiple Choice

John was a young man who had spent all his life in the city and knew little about the countryside. (1) _____ John found the work really hard but at the end said that he had really enjoyed himself.

• A. ln order to get some idea of life in the country, he went for a holiday at a hotel in a tiny village.

• B. ln order to get some idea of life in the country, he arranged to spend a few weeks working on a farm.

Sentence A fits in quite well with the first sentence of the paragraph - by staying at a hotel in a tiny village he would be able to learn something about the countryside. However, there is no suggestion that he did any work when he was there; this clearly does not fit in with the idea of the work being hard, as mentioned in the final sentence of the paragraph. However, sentence B fits in with both the first and last sentence - the mention of John working in B is connected with his finding work hard in the final sentence.

Keywords

• You will often find key words which link a sentence to the subject of one of the paragraphs.

• Words such as this, that, these,, those often link different parts of a paragraph.

• Similarly a person who has just been mentioned by his or her full name will then be referred to as he or she (or simply by his or her first or last name).

• Nouns when they first appear in a passage often have the word a in front of them; when they appear again, they usually have the in front of them.

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