Detailed explanation of the real question "cloze" in 2007.

The difficulty of English cloze in 2007 is basically the same as that in 2006. The article is not long, about 250 words, shorter than the reading questions, and there are also 20 questions, each with only 0.5 points. Judging from the statistical data over the years, the cloze score rate is low. However, because the score of each question is very small, students with good English level should not lose too many points. As the first question in the English test paper, this article itself is not difficult, especially the first few questions, which should be easily answered by professionally trained students; The last paragraph is relatively difficult, and you need to carefully compare the differences between different options. Now, combined with this year's real questions, talk about the skills that students should pay attention to in the process of cloze.

1. Grasp the main idea of the article through the first sentence of the article: The cloze in 2007 mainly talked about some situations when the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies were independent, mainly involving some issues of religion, politics and people's livelihood. As in previous years, the first sentence of the article has not been hollowed out, and the full text also adopts the usual structure of "sharing points", so the first sentence often prompts the main content and central idea of the article. Therefore, the meaning of this sentence must be carefully understood, so as to grasp the general idea of the article from a macro perspective. The first sentence of the original cloze in 2007 was: "Before 1830, the Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent countries." Through this sentence, we can be sure that this article must be centered on "colonial independence", and every sentence in the article must be related to this issue. At this time, we can even use the accumulated background knowledge to help with the problem.

2. Contact the context and make a choice through the context: Many problems in cloze are not only the distinction of options, but also the need to judge the general idea of the sentence from the content of the context, and then determine the options. In the process of answering specific questions, don't just stare at sentences with options, broaden your horizons and look for background hints from the context. For example, the second question: about 20 million countries look to the future.

[A] Confidently [B] Happily [C] Anxiously [D] Only from this sentence, I can't judge whether these four options are right or wrong, but from the following sentence, I can see people's yearning for freedom before independence. Therefore, what this sentence should express is that people should be full of hope for the future of the country after independence. So you should choose D. For example, Question 8: About the _ _ _ of religion and the poison of the church, …

[a] Freedom [b] Origin [c] Influence [d] The answer to this question also comes from the following understanding. From the following argument, we can see that this is a question of religious freedom, so we should choose A. (%bk%).

3. Exclusion is one of the most commonly used methods when we do multiple-choice questions in politics and English. Generally speaking, 1 is the interference item that really needs your attention, and the other two items can be easily excluded. Sometimes even three wrong options can be easily identified (of course, this is rare, and most topics will have 1 unavoidable interference items). Students can exclude 2-3 wrong options as much as possible when doing cloze, and then they can carefully distinguish which of the remaining two is the interference item and which is the correct option. For example, question 1: About 20 million people are full of hope for the future.

Locals, residents, nationalities and individuals

Of the four options, you can exclude C and D first. As a collective noun, people generally don't add S, which can be judged according to common sense. As an "individual", the individual is used too broadly here. Only a and b need to be seriously considered. As mentioned above, the judgment of A and B needs the help of context. As can be seen from the following, immigrants should choose here. For example, the third question: born in the old register and the crisis of Iberian colonialism, many independent leaders _ _ _ _ _ the idea of representative government, ...

[A] Shared [B] Forgotten [C] Attended [D] Rejected Judging from the context, the main idea of this sentence is that colonial scholars advocate political ideas such as representative government, free trade and protection of private property, so options B and D can be easily excluded.

4. After completing the questions, read the full text again and check the options: After completing all the questions, don't rush to do the next part. You can go back and read the full text carefully (plus the options you choose) to see if there are any inconsistencies in content and logic, and pay special attention to the details of the article. If you can confirm that there are contradictions, some options may be wrong and need to be corrected immediately. When doing cloze, skills are of course very important, but the key to really getting high marks lies in the usual study and accumulation, especially the expansion of vocabulary and the discrimination of synonyms.