Reading: cloze, logical links and paragraph meaning
| English | 中文 | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|
| temporarily | 暂时 | zàn shí |
| therefore | 因而 | yīn ér |
A decision before an answer
- An example can support a claim without being the paragraph’s main idea. Choose the answer at the right level.
- Your goal: Use collocation and connectors to complete a passage.
Read the relationship
- Read a passage globally before individual gaps. Identify whether the missing material connects ideas, names a concept or completes a collocation.
- Identify main ideas and logical development.
暂时没有推广 means:
暂时 limits the time scope.
Use the defining rule
- Although, cause, progression and condition have distinct Chinese signals: despite尽管、therefore因此、not just不仅、if only只要 in their appropriate structures.
- Distinguish an author’s claim from an example or qualification.
因此 usually introduces:
It marks a consequence of the preceding reason.
Check the conditions
- Main-idea answers need a scope covering the paragraph. A single detail is too narrow; a sweeping universal claim can be too broad.
- Distinguish an author’s claim from an example or qualification.
“这项means办法(manufacturing, production…成本to compare较high高，therefore因此temporary暂时not have / haven't没有to extend推广。” Cost is given as the reason for not spreading the method. Substituting despite尽管 without restructuring changes or breaks the relationship. The paragraph does not say the method never works.
不仅…而且… adds a ____ idea (use “further” or “opposite”).
The construction is additive and progressive.
Apply the task format
- Use textual evidence for the answer. Prior subject knowledge cannot replace the supplied passage.
- Distinguish an author’s claim from an example or qualification.
Do not turn temporary暂时 into forever永远. Time qualifiers can distinguish a supported answer from an overclaim.
Which answer fits this case?
Use collocation and connectors to complete a passage
An example is always the whole paragraph’s main claim.
It may illustrate a broader point.
Keep the distinctions
- temporarily temporary暂时 — For the present period rather than permanently.
- therefore therefore因此 — A link introducing a consequence.
- Use collocation and connectors to complete a passage.
- Identify main ideas and logical development.
- Distinguish an author’s claim from an example or qualification.
Match each term with its precise meaning in this lesson.
Keep the distinctions stated in the teaching example.
Put this lesson’s reasoning or event sequence in order.
The order follows the stated process; check each stage before the next.