| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Chinese abstract | 第4-6页 |
| English abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第8-11页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Purposes of the present study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Methodology | 第16页 |
| ·Key terms | 第16-18页 |
| ·The outline of the paper | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Historical Review | 第20-34页 |
| ·Relevant studies of the cloze procedure | 第20-29页 |
| ·Theoretical concepts behind cloze | 第20-25页 |
| ·The origin of cloze procedure | 第20页 |
| ·The rationale of cloze procedure as foreign language test task | 第20-21页 |
| ·The rationale of cloze as an integrative pragmatic test format | 第21-25页 |
| ·Applications of cloze procedure to evaluation of teaching effectiveness | 第25-26页 |
| ·Varieties of cloze test | 第26-29页 |
| ·The fix-rate deletion cloze | 第26-27页 |
| ·The selective deletion cloze | 第27-28页 |
| ·The multiple-choice (MC) cloze | 第28页 |
| ·The C-test | 第28-29页 |
| ·Studies on classroom tests | 第29-32页 |
| ·Studies on the formal achievement test | 第29-31页 |
| ·Studies on the informal quizzes | 第31-32页 |
| ·Protocol analysis in cloze test | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology of the Present Study | 第34-42页 |
| ·Overview | 第34页 |
| ·Participants | 第34-35页 |
| ·Participants involved in the statistical analyses | 第34页 |
| ·Participants involved in the protocol analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Process and instruments of the present study | 第35-37页 |
| ·Data collection procedure | 第37-38页 |
| ·Scoring the quizzes and the two formal tests | 第37页 |
| ·Protocol data | 第37-38页 |
| ·Analyses | 第38-42页 |
| ·Analysis of the protocol data from the gap-filling quiz | 第38-39页 |
| ·Statistical analyses of the final achievement test | 第39-42页 |
| ·Reliability | 第40页 |
| ·Validity | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter 4 Result Analyses and Discussion | 第42-57页 |
| ·Result analysis of the protocol data | 第42-47页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics of the information used by the 8 protocol students | 第42-44页 |
| ·Differences between the information sources used by the two groups | 第44-46页 |
| ·Discussion | 第46-47页 |
| ·Result analyses of the final achievement test and of the gap-filling subtest | 第47-57页 |
| ·Statistical analyses of the final examination | 第47-52页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics | 第47-49页 |
| ·Reliability estimates for the final exam and the CET 4 | 第49-50页 |
| ·Validity investigation of the final exam | 第50-52页 |
| ·Further exploratory study of the effectiveness of the gap-filling subtest as a reading comprehension test | 第52-54页 |
| ·Discussion | 第54-57页 |
| ·Discussion about the final achievement test | 第54-55页 |
| ·Discussion about the gap-filling subtest | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| ·Significance of the present study | 第57-58页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第58-59页 |
| ·Suggestions for further research in this field | 第59-60页 |
| Appendix | 第60-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-66页 |
| 承诺书 | 第66页 |
