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Field 120: Cantonese CST
Interpretive Reading

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Directions for Interpretive Reading Selected-Response Questions

For the Interpretive Reading section of the test, you will read passages written in the target language and answer selected-response questions written in the target language based on each passage.

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Sample Interpretive Reading Selected-Response Questions

Competency 0002 
Interpretive Reading

Read the passage below from «????», a short story by ?? (Lu Xun); then answer the five questions that follow.

[Simplified]

?????????,????????,??S??????????????,????,?????,?????????????????????,????,?????????????,?????S????????;????????????????,???????????????,?????,?????????;???????,?????????,????????????,????????,?????????

?????????????,????????,????,??????????????????,???????;???????,????????,??????????????????,??????????,???????????????????,?????,??????????????????,???????????????????????,?????????????,????????????????;????????????????,????????????????????????????????,????????????????????;????????????????

???????????????,????!?

[Traditional]

?????????,????????,?? S ?? ????????????,????,?????,????????????????? ????,????,?????????????,????? S ????????;??????????? ?????,???????????????,?????,?????????;???????,?????????,?????? ??????,????????,?????????

?????????????,????????,????,??????????????????,???????;???????,????????,??????????????????,??????????,???????????????????,?????,??????????????????,???????????????????????,?????????????,????????????????;????????????????,????????????????????????????????,????????????????????;????????????????

???????????????,????!?

1.
??????S????
??????S????

  1. ??
    ??
  2. ??
    ??
  3. ???
    ???
  4. ??
    ??
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Correct Response: C. This question requires examinees to identify explicit and relevant information in a text. After he reserved a room at the hotel, the narrator went directly to the town to look for his former colleagues (??????????????? / ???????????????).

2.
???????????
???????????

  1. ??
    ??
  2. ??
    ??
  3. ??
    ??
  4. ??
    ??
Enter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded
Correct Response: A. This question requires examinees to identify explicit and relevant information in a text. The narrator explicitly states that he was on the faculty of a school in the town of S for a year (???????????????? / ????????????????).

3.
????????????????"????????"?
????????????????"????????"?

  1. ???????????????,??????
    ???????????????,??????
  2. ????????,????,???????
    ????????,????,???????
  3. ???????????,????????
    ???????????,????????
  4. ????????????????
    ????????????????
Enter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded
Correct Response: A. This question requires examinees to analyze the structure and organization of a text, including how specific parts of the text interrelate and how the author's choices regarding structure and organization within the text are used to achieve particular effects. Once the narrator realizes that all of his colleagues have gone away and that the school's appearance has changed so much, he starts to regret his decision to spend time in the town of S. This marks a turning point in the passage and a change in the narrative mood (???????????????,?????,?????????. . . ??????,????????,???????? / ???????????????,?????,?????????. . . ??????,????????,????????).

4.
??????????????
??????????????

  1. ?????S???
    ?????S???
  2. ??????S?
    ??????S?
  3. ?????S???
    ?????S???
  4. ???S???
    ???S???
Enter to expand or collapse answer.Answer expanded
Correct Response: C. This question requires examinees to summarize or paraphrase the theme(s) or central idea(s) in a text. The narrator goes back to S because he had worked there (???????????????? / ????????????????).

5.
????????
????????

  1. ??
    ??
  2. ??
    ??
  3. ??
    ??
  4. ??
    ??
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Correct Response: D. This question requires examinees to draw logical inferences or conclusions based on the context, situation, and information given in a text and identify evidence to support inferences drawn from the text. In the passage, the narrator states that he has decided to stay in the town of S because he felt indolent and nostalgic. Though his colleagues have left and the school has changed, he recalls with sentimentality familiar places that he used to like. He especially liked the tavern, where he notices that all the people he knew are gone, but everything else is the same. He climbs "the familiar stairway" to find that nothing has changed in the "little upper story," (??????????????????,????????????????????;??????????????? / ??????????????????,????????????????????;???????????????).