Задания на рациональное заполнение пропусков (rational cloze tasks, разновидность open cloze) входят в экзамены Cambridge уже на протяжении четырёх десятилетий.
Здесь они ограничены пропусками двумя или тремя предложениями (в монологе) или двумя-тремя репликами (в диалоге), чтобы в основном проверить связность текста (cohesion).
Это уже получается полусочинение.
Мы использовали оригинальные тексты из экзамена KET for Schools. Предполагается, что выбранные пропуски позволяют легко определить смысловые переходы.
Если вы хотите найти больше упражнений такого типа, вы можете перейти по этой ссылке, чтобы скачать их.
ChatGPT или Gemini кое-как справляются с монологами, но хуже — с диалогами. Вы можете попросить их заполнять пробелы, ограничить используемую лексику и грамматику уровнем CEFR A2, и с облегчением поймёте, что ещё не скоро роботы смогут заменить трезвомыслящих людей.
Если их варианты ответов отличаются от ваших, и вы подозреваете, что ваш вариант тоже может быть правильным, вы можете взять оригинальные тексты и сравнить.
Попросите ChatGPT или Gemini сравнить ваши ответы со своими и перевести весь текст на ваш родной язык.
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This story begins at the back of the house of a boy named Jordan, where he and his friend Emma found a map to a treasure! “Look at this map!” said Jordan. “There’s an ‘X’ marking this tree! It should be a treasure!” “Wow!” Emma replied. “Let’s go after it!” Then Emma and Jordan went searching for the treasure. Following the map, they finally reached the tree where the treasure should be. Jordan searched the tree and found a hole in it. Inside the hole, he found the treasure!
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He opened it, and look! Inside the bag they found a lot of coins! But wait! They were made of chocolate. What a waste of time!
“Well,” Jordan said, “at least they taste good!”
2
Teresa: “Hi, Daniel, have you done your writing for the competition yet?”
Daniel: “Hi, Teresa, I finished it yesterday.”
Teresa: ________________________________________________________
Daniel: ________________________________________________________
Teresa: “That film was great! I couldn’t decide between writing about my grandma’s life or writing about the island I went to on holiday. I’ve chosen the first one — there’s so much to say!”
Daniel: “You can’t write as many words as you want.”
Teresa: “It’s from five hundred to a thousand, isn’t it?”
Daniel: “It’s five hundred at the most, actually.”
Teresa: “And how did you feel after you finished?”
Daniel: “I wasn’t tired, just worried people might say it’s really bad, because I don’t think what I’ve written is very exciting!”
Teresa: ________________________________________________________
Daniel: ________________________________________________________
Teresa: “Everything I use a laptop for, and I’ll be able to read books on it.”
Daniel: “You have a good chance of winning, you’re great at writing stories.”
Teresa: “Well, I’m better at that than just describing places. But I’m not sure my spelling’s good enough.”
3s
Turtles spend most of their life in the sea. They have a hard shell over their body and they can pull their head, arms and legs inside the shell when they are in danger. ________________________________________________________
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About a month later, the eggs break open and the baby turtles try to get into the sea.
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People think they find the way by following the light of the moon or the stars.
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There are some special children, who are called child prodigies. They are unusually clever. They can, for example, write music or play chess at a very young age.
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Francesca Contini looks like any other young teenager, but at 13, she’s already started doing medicine at university. Francesca and her two older brothers are also excellent musicians and they have all played at concert halls in New York where they live. Their parents work in a supermarket. They have never been interested in music and they are very surprised by their children.
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Twelve-year-old Peter Lee is already an excellent piano player. He is very bored at school, so in the evenings he teaches himself mathematics and science from books for university students. When he was five, he got first prize in a piano competition for children up to 18. At 10, Peter made his first CD. On it, he played many different kinds of music.
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Boy: “Oh, that’s nice. What did you get for your sister?”
Kate: “I know she wants some sunglasses but I couldn’t find any nice ones, so I got her this T-shirt with monkeys on it. Do you think she’ll like it?”
Boy: “She’ll love it.”
Kate: “My grandmother likes things made of glass. So this dolphin is for her because the colour looks beautiful in the sunlight.”
Boy: ________________________________________________________
Kate: ________________________________________________________
Boy: “The green one?”
Kate: “Yes, well I got him this leather belt in the same colour.”
Boy: ________________________________________________________
Kate: “He loves animals, so I got him this bag of chocolate bears. He’ll be really pleased.”
Boy: “Great!”
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Ben: “Laura, I heard you need someone to join your band. What music do you play? Any hip hop or reggae?”
Laura: “We play rock music, Ben!”
Ben: “I’d love to join. What instruments do you need?”
Laura: “Well, Jamie and I play guitar but we’re looking for a keyboard player. Our drummer left but we’ve found someone for that.”
Ben: ________________________________________________________
Laura: ________________________________________________________
Ben: ________________________________________________________
Laura: “We did, but our neighbours didn’t like it, so we use the garage at Jamie’s house now. When it gets cold we’ll find a room at school.”
Ben: “Will you do a concert sometime?”
Laura: ________________________________________________________
Ben: ________________________________________________________
Laura: “I’ve lost my mobile! Use my home phone instead. I don’t check my emails very often.”
Ben: “OK. Bye!”
Laura: “Bye.”
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Girl: ________________________________________________________
Boy: “That’s a good question. Miss Jones is my favourite — I like young teachers.”
Girl: ________________________________________________________
Boy: ________________________________________________________
Girl: “Oh no, he’s well over two metres and he hasn’t got any hair! I like your French teacher, Mrs Wilson. She’s very beautiful.”
Boy: “Yes, she is, but her classes aren’t interesting. But she’s better than our last French teacher, Mr Wood — he was even older than my grandfather!”
Girl: ________________________________________________________
Boy: ________________________________________________________
Girl: “Oh, the new sports teacher. He lives near me. He helped my father when he moved the piano. He’s much stronger than my dad. I think he’ll be great for football.”
Boy: “Yes — and tennis.”