| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第10-11页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第11-13页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第13-14页 |
| TABLE OF COTENTS | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-22页 |
| ·Background and Rationale of the Study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Purposes and Significance of the Study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第19-20页 |
| ·Layout of the Study | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-38页 |
| ·Nature of Reading Comprehension | 第22页 |
| ·Reading Skills | 第22-24页 |
| ·Factors Affecting Reading Comprehension Testing | 第24-30页 |
| ·Reader Factors | 第24-26页 |
| ·Readers' Knowledge | 第24-26页 |
| ·Linguistic Knowledge | 第25页 |
| ·Background Knowledge | 第25-26页 |
| ·Other Reader Factors | 第26页 |
| ·Test Task Factors | 第26-30页 |
| ·Text Factors | 第26-30页 |
| ·Linguistic Factors | 第27-29页 |
| ·Other Text Factors | 第29-30页 |
| ·Task Formats Factor | 第30页 |
| ·Test Method Facets (TMF) | 第30-34页 |
| ·An Introduction of Reading Comprehension in CET-4 and CET-6 | 第34-36页 |
| ·Components in Reading Comprehension in CET-4 and CET-6 | 第34-35页 |
| ·Reading Skills in CET-4 and CET-6 | 第35-36页 |
| ·Previous Contrastive Studies | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第38-42页 |
| ·Overview | 第38页 |
| ·Subjects | 第38-39页 |
| ·Instruments | 第39-40页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Comparative Content Analysis of the Task Characteristics | 第42-57页 |
| ·Characteristics of Language of Input | 第42-52页 |
| ·Vocabulary | 第42-45页 |
| ·Word Length | 第42-43页 |
| ·Lexical Density | 第43-44页 |
| ·Typee/Token Ratio (TTR) and Standardized Type/Token Ratio(STTR) | 第44-45页 |
| ·Sentence | 第45-50页 |
| ·Sentence Length | 第46页 |
| ·Sentence Type | 第46-50页 |
| ·Readability | 第50-52页 |
| ·Comparative Study of Test Tasks of Reading Comprehension in CET-4 and in CET-6 | 第52-56页 |
| ·Response Format | 第53-54页 |
| ·Reading Skills | 第54-56页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Chapter Five Quantitative Analysis of the Data from the Score | 第57-71页 |
| ·Analysis of CET-4 and CET-6 | 第57-59页 |
| ·Analysis of the Reading Comprehension Sub-test in CET-4 and in CET-6 | 第59-66页 |
| ·Comparison of the difficulty level between the Reading Comprehension Components in CET-4 and CET-6 | 第59-62页 |
| ·Comparison of the Difficulty Level between the Skimming & Scannion Component in CET-4 and CET-6 | 第62-66页 |
| ·Analysis of Data from Students of Different Language Proficiency Level | 第66-70页 |
| ·Comparison of Test Performances on Reading Comprehension with Different Groups of Test Takers of Different Language Proficiency Levels by the Total Scores in CET-4 | 第67-68页 |
| ·Comparison of Test Performances on Reading Comprehension with Different Groups of Test Takers of Different Language Proficiency Levels by the Total Scores in CET-6 | 第68-70页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第70-71页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第71-74页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第71-72页 |
| ·Implications | 第72页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-77页 |
