I.True or false. Directions: Judge whether the following statements are true or false. Write a T in the brackets after a true statements and an F before a false statements.

( ) 1. Reading is a dynamic and cognitive process involving readers' continuous assumptions, confirmations, imagination and inferences.

( ) 2. Reading comprehension is a psychological process during which readers, with the purpose of getting information, employ their language knowledge and life experience to understand the contents and make inferences and thus grasp the deep implications of the written material, as well as the writer's viewpoints and purpose.

( ) 3. The first level is interpretive comprehension, in which readers use their language knowledge to identify and understand the information explicitly stated in the text.

( ) 4. Evaluative comprehension and appreciative comprehension are higher levels of understanding. They are the results of the interaction between readers' reading comprehension and their cultural background knowledge, and can only be achieved after literal and inferred comprehension.

( ) 5. Three models of reading have been developed over time: the bottom-up model, the top-down model and the interactive model.

( ) 6. Writing competence mainly includes observation ability, thinking ability, basic writing ability and style-writing ability.

( ) 7. English writing includes sentence writing and discourse writing. Discourse writing can be further divided into paragraph writing and passage writing.

( ) 8. Writing strategies are devices students choose and apply purposely and consciously to improve their writing skills, as well as regulate and control their writing behavior during the writing process.

( ) 9. There are generally three approaches to the teaching of writing: the product-oriented approach, the process-oriented approach and the content-oriented approach.

( ) 10. Coherence is frequently used to practise students' writing skills. Various mistakes such as wrong tenses, voice, wording and spelling, inaccurate or illogic expression, unclear topic sentence, improper discourse structures, non-standard format, or Chinglish can be found and corrected through proofreading.

II.Short answers. Directions: answer the following questions briefly.

1.What are the differences between literal and inferred comprehension?

2.Which writing approach do you often adopt in your teaching? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

3.Which writing approach do you think fits your present teaching the most? Why?