申論題

Part 4: Examination Questions Design 

1. Cloze Test Design 

Directions:
    People who want to experience an overnight stay in arctic-like cold may try the ice hotel—a building of frozen water. Despite the seemingly unattractive prospect of sleeping in a room at minus 15 degrees Celsius, every year about 4,000 people check in to an ice hotel in a town in Canada. The only warm things at the ice hotel are the candles on the bedside tables.

    The air is so cold that you can see your breath, which turns to liquid and appears as tiny droplets at the opening of your sleeping bag. The tip of your nose feels numb—almost as though it were frozen. Getting up for a little while—to drink a glass of water or go to the bathroom—seems impossible without risking death. Since an adventurous spirit alone is not enough to withstand more than two hours at the icy hotel, the staff briefs guests on what to wear and how to behave. Normal winter boots and outfits offer little protection from the cold. The guests also learn how to warm up quickly in their arctic sleeping bags and how to prevent eyeglasses from freezing.

    Comfort, however, is not the purpose to stay in the ice hotel. Guests want to feel like polar explorers. For them, the first hot cup of post-expedition coffee is pure delight.

(2) Underline the word /phrase if you want to make it blank in your cloze test.