ket阅读与听力试题及答案

RELATINGLANGUAGEEXAMINATIONSTOTHECOMMONEUROPEANFRAMEWORKOFREFERENCEFORLANGUAGES:LEARNING,TEACHING,ASSESSMENT?ReadingandListeningItemsandTasks:PilotSamples6ENGLISHKeyEnglishTest(KET)Reading7KeyEnglishTest(KET)Listening15ENGLISHRELATINGLANGUAGEEXAMINATIONSTOTHECOMMONEUROPEANFRAMEWORKOFREFERENCEFORLANGUAGES:LEARNING,TEACHING,ASSESSMENT?ReadingandListeningItemsandTasks:PilotSamples7KeyEnglishTest(KET)ReadingKETReadingGeneralinformationBackgroundtotheExaminationKeyEnglishTest(KET)isageneralEnglishquali?cationwhichispartoftheCambridgeESOLMain-suiteexaminations.SetatlevelA2oftheCEF,KETrecognisestheabilitytocopewitheve-rydaywrittenandspokencommunicationsatabasiclevel.KETisdesignedforlearnerswhohavebasicEnglishskills,ofthekindneededwhentravellinginaforeigncountry.CandidatureKETistakenbymorethan56,000peopleeachyearinover60countries.Around75%ofKETcandidatesareaged18orunderandafurther20%areinthe19-30agegroup.Around85%ofcandidatesattendpreparationclasses.StructureoftheTestKETteststheskillsofReading,Writing,ListeningandSpeakingwitheachskillequallyweightedat25%.KETisadministeredinthreeseparatepapers.Paper1ReadingandWrit-ing,Paper2ListeningandPaper3Speaking.TherearefourpossiblegradesinKET:Twopassgrades(passwithmeritandpass)andtwofailgrades(narrowfailandfail).Resultsarebasedoncandidatesaggregatescoresacrossthefourskills.KETReadingandWritingPaperThepaperhasa?xedformat,withParts1-5testingreadingskillsthroughavarietyoftextsrangingfromveryshortnoticestolongercontinuoustexts.CandidatesareassessedontheirabilitytounderstandwrittenEnglishatword,phrase,sentence,paragraphandwholetextlevel.KETcandidatesshouldbeabletounderstandthemainmessage,andsomedetail,ofavarietyofshortfactualreadingtexts:forexample,signs,notices,instructions,brochures,guides,personalcorrespondenceandinformativearticlesfromnewspapersandmaga-zines.Othertasksonthepaperinclude:readingforgist;understandingofreal-worldnotices(matchingtask);readingandidentifyingappropriatevocabulary(multiple-choicesen-tences);readingandidentifyingappropriatefunctionalresponses(multiple-choicetask)andreadingforunderstandingoflexico-structuralpatternsinatext(multiple-choicecloze).ENGLISHRELATINGLANGUAGEEXAMINATIONSTOTHECOMMONEUROPEANFRAMEWORKOFREFERENCEFORLANGUAGES:LEARNING,TEACHING,ASSESSMENT?ReadingandListeningItemsandTasks:PilotSamples8PartFourThistaskfocusesonreadingfordetailedunderstandingandmainideas.Thetextisalwaysashortarticle,butoneoftwothree-optionobjectivetasktypesmaybeused:eitheraRight/Wrong/Doesntsaytaskasinthisexample,orathree-optionmultiple-choicetask.Thetextscomefromauthenticsources,butareadaptedtomakethemaccessibletocandidatesatthelevel.Theymayincludevocabularywhichisunfamiliartocandidates,butthisshouldnotinterferewiththeirabilitytocompletethetask.Reading(CEFRA2)TesttobeanalysedKeyEnglishTest(KET)TargetlanguageEnglishTaskReadingcomponent(Part4)RubricsTargetlanguageItemsTargetlanguageTimetodototaltest1hr10mTargetlevelsCEFRA2ALTE1Age-groupsectorTeenagersandadultsDomainPublicdomainCommunicativeactivities:OverallreadingcomprehensionCanunderstandshort,simpletextscontain-ingthehighestfrequencyvocabulary.ReadingforinformationandargumentCanidentifyspeci?cinformationinsimplewrittenmaterials,suchasletters,brochuresandshortnewspaperarticlesdescribingevents.MarkDistributionEachofthesevenitemscarriesonemark,representing20%ofthemarksavailableacrossthe?vereadingtasks.EffectiveLevelAllKETReadingtasksarepre-testedusingvolunteercandidates.Typically,pre-testcandi-datesarestudentspreparingtotaketheexaminthenearfuture.Arangeofageandnation-alitygroupsisrepresentedinthepre-testpopulation,whichroughlycorrespondstothatofthelivecandidature.Pre-testedmaterialsarethensubjecttostatisticalanalysisattaskanditemlevelusingbothclassicalitemanalysistoestablishthatitemsarediscriminating,andRaschanalysistodeter-KETReadingENGLISHRELATINGLANGUAGEEXAMINATIONSTOTHECOMMONEUROPEANFRAMEWORKOFREFERENCEFORLANGUAGES:LEARNING,TEACHING,ASSESSMENT?ReadingandListeningItemsandTasks:PilotSamples9minethelevelofdif?culty.Eachtask,therefore,consistsofitemsofmeasureddif?culty,whichareselectedfromwithinaspeci?edrangetodeterminethemeandif?cultyofthetask.Testsareconstructedfromthetasksintheitembank.Eachtask,therefore,consistsofitemsofmeasured(Rasch)dif?culty,whichareselectedfromwithinaspeci?edrangetodeterminethemeandif?cultyofthetask.CalibrationTestsareconstructedfromthecalibratedtasksintheitembank.Theone-parameterRaschmodelisusedforcalibratingtheitems.Formostroutineanalysis,CambridgeESOLusestheBIGSTEPSanalysisprogramsupplementedbyin-houseprogrammesforformattingdataandhandlingtheoutput.ThelogitscaleproducedbyBIGSTEPSisre-scaledtoproduceaconven-tionalESOLscale,whichisusedfortestconstructionpurposes.Thisisknownasthecommonscaleforitem-basedtests.ThecompletescaleforCambridgeESOLexaminations,fromKET(A2)toCPE(C2)coversarangefromabout20to110.TheexpectedrangesofvaluesforKETonthisscaleisapproximately30-50,withatargetmeanof41.PerformanceofthistaskThiswasoneofthemostchallengingtasksonthepaperandcandidatesfoundsomeques-tions,particularly28and32