分题选择完型填空与集库式完型填空的对比实验

A Comparative Study of Separate Item Multiple Choice Cloze Test and Bank Cloze Test

完型填空是一种被许多大规模考试所广泛采用的题型，但对于这种题型的研究在国内却很少。本文在对完型填空进行综合概述的基础上，对两种操作性很强的完型填空形式，即分题选择完型填空与集库式完型填空，作了对比研究，结果表明前者与词汇语法测试的相关较高，而后者与阅读理解测试的相关很高，从而证明集库式完型填空是一种具有较高效率的阅读理解测试方式。

Cloze Test, as a test item, has long been used in many large-scale tests, but the study of this item type in detail is few andfar between. This paper, based on a general review of this item type, presents the results of a comparative study of two highly efficientand effective variants of Cloze Test, that is, Separate Item Multiple Choice Cloze Test (MC Cloze Test for short) and Bank Cloze Test.The results show a higher correlation between MC Cloze Test with the test of vocabulary and grammar and a higher correlation betweenBank Cloze with the test of reading comprehension. A conclusion is thus drawn that Bank Cloze Test is a highly valid way of testingreading comprehension.