| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·General description of the study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Motivations for the study | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第11页 |
| ·Overall structure of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-32页 |
| ·Discussion of some key terms in the study | 第13-19页 |
| ·TEM-8 | 第13-14页 |
| ·Reading Comprehension Test (RCT) | 第14-15页 |
| ·Stem Type | 第15-18页 |
| ·Test Performance | 第18-19页 |
| ·Related theories on reading comprehension | 第19-24页 |
| ·Bottom-up Model | 第20页 |
| ·Top-down Model | 第20-21页 |
| ·Interactive Model | 第21-23页 |
| ·Schemata Theory | 第23-24页 |
| ·Related studies on stem types in RCT | 第24-30页 |
| ·Previous research on RCT | 第24-25页 |
| ·Formats of RCT in TEM-8 | 第25-29页 |
| ·Previous research on the stem types and the students’reading performance | 第29-30页 |
| ·Specification of research objectives | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第32-38页 |
| ·Research objectives | 第32页 |
| ·Research design | 第32-38页 |
| ·Subjects | 第32页 |
| ·Instrument | 第32-34页 |
| ·Data collection | 第34页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第38-48页 |
| ·The distribution of stem types in the test papers | 第38-39页 |
| ·The relationships between stem types and the students’reading performance | 第39-47页 |
| ·Accuracy rate and difficulty of different stem types in each paper | 第39-43页 |
| ·The overall relationships between the stem types and reading performance | 第43-45页 |
| ·The annual relationships between the stem types and the students’reading performance | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第48-52页 |
| ·Major findings | 第48-49页 |
| ·Implications | 第49-50页 |
| ·Limitations of this study | 第50页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-59页 |
| Appendix I Fact/detail questions | 第59-61页 |
| Appendix II Overall inference questions | 第61-62页 |
| Appendix III Main idea/topic questions | 第62-63页 |
