Reading and writing: Fill in the blanks

Communicative skills tested: Reading and writing.

Subskills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context; understanding academic vocabulary; understanding the difference between connotation and denotation; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; following a logical or chronological sequence of events.

Using words and phrases appropriate to the context; using correct grammar.