P6 Chinese cloze practice
Singapore Primary 6 Chinese, cloze (短文填空): fill several blanks in a short passage, testing cohesion across the passage — one sentence is not enough to go on, and what comes before and after has to join up. Everything here follows the MOE syllabus. You can try one set free without signing up, and it is marked as you go — get one wrong and the same point comes back asked a different way, so your child can push towards the PSLE on cloze. This page has 7 skill points and 20 questions.
What is tested in P6 cloze
In P5 and P6 cloze is a fixed five-question, ten-mark section of Paper 2 under the board's specification: a passage of one or two hundred characters with five blanks, and options that interfere across blanks — the same word will do in two places. It tests cohesion, connectives and written-register collocation, and the blanks fall mostly on connectives, verbs and four-character phrases.
Common traps
- Two blanks constrain each other, so one wrong fill takes the second with it.
- A connective blank whose first half sits in the sentence before, which the child has not looked at.
- A four-character blank where every option is an idiom and only one matches the feeling of the passage.
How to practise
Read the whole passage first and mark the sentences either side of each blank. Decide whether the blank wants a connective, a verb or a describing word before reading the options. Once all five are filled, read the passage from the top — the blank that does not read smoothly is usually the wrong one.
P6 cloze · worked examples
小安一直觉得华文很难，尤其是写作文。每次拿起笔，他都皱着眉头，想不出要写什么。王老师鼓励他多阅读报纸，并每天写一小段日记。小安虽然半信半疑，但还是决定试一试。第一个星期，他写得很慢，句子也不通顺。到了第二个星期，他发现自己写起来（1）______了一些。一个月后，小安不但能写出完整的短文，还（2）______地发现自己爱上了写作。在班级分享会上，他读了自己写的一篇关于“巴刹”的短文，还没读完，就有几个同学忍不住喊“写得真好”，读完后同学们都（3）______地鼓掌。从此，他每个星期都会写一篇新的短文，投稿到班级的“小作家园地”。 根据短文，第（1）空应填：
- ・吃力
- ・缓慢
- ✓ 顺利
- ・马虎
Why: The answer is "顺利 (smoothly)". In the first week he "wrote very slowly and his sentences did not flow", and after a month he "could write a complete short piece", so the second week is when he starts improving and writing goes a bit more smoothly. "缓慢 (slow)" does not fit: slowness was his first-week problem, and in the second week he is improving. "吃力 (with great effort)" means writing is hard work, the opposite direction to his steady progress. "马虎 (careless)" does not fit because he keeps writing his diary and gets better, not more careless.
小乐一直很羡慕哥哥能用华语流利地讲故事，于是他决定每天花半小时练习。刚开始，他（1）______地读着课文，觉得既枯燥又困难。妈妈鼓励他，说只要坚持，就一定会有进步。小乐听了妈妈的话，每天都认真练习，从不间断。几个月后，他带着满满的信心参加了学校的讲故事比赛，结果获得了第二名。他（2）______地接过奖状，心里充满了成就感。现在，小乐不仅华语水平提高了，还爱上了阅读。他常常（3）______地跟同学分享有趣的故事，大家都说他进步很大。小乐知道，自己能有今天的进步，靠的不是聪明或运气，而是每天不间断的练习。他觉得，只要（4）______，就没有办不到的事。 根据短文，第（1）空应填：
- ✓ 吃力
- ・轻松
- ・兴奋
- ・马虎
Why: The answer is "吃力" (with difficulty). The text says Xiao Le found reading the textbook "boring and difficult" at first, so he read with difficulty. "兴奋" (excited) and "轻松" (easy) don't match "boring and difficult"; "马虎" (careless) isn't mentioned — he simply found it hard, not that he wasn't trying.
小乐原本觉得华文很难，总是提不起兴趣。陈老师鼓励他每天读一篇短文。开始几天，小乐（1）______，觉得无聊。但他想起自己曾经答应老师要试满一个月，于是决定继续尝试。慢慢地，他发现自己能读懂了，还从故事中学到了道理。有一次作文课，他（2）______地构思，花了很多心思，写出了自己最满意的作品。陈老师当着全班的面表扬了他，小乐心里很高兴。他说：“原来只要不放弃，就能（3）______困难。”从此，他（4）______地练习，华文成绩进步了很多。 根据短文，第（1）空应填：
- ・兴高采烈
- ・半信半疑
- ✓ 心不在焉
- ・全神贯注
Why: The answer is “心不在焉” (absent-minded). In the first few days Xiaole found the reading boring, so his mind was not on the passages. “兴高采烈” (in high spirits) contradicts “觉得无聊” (felt bored). “全神贯注” (fully focused): a bored reader is not this focused, so it also contradicts “觉得无聊”. “半信半疑” (half-believing) is about whether you believe something, which has nothing to do with feeling bored while reading.
Read the whole passage through first, work out what each blank needs from the context, then read it back once it is filled.
Skill points on this page (7)
- 短文填空·家庭温情与感恩 · 1 question
- 短文填空·遵守规则的重要性 · 3 questions
- 短文填空·助人带来的改变 · 2 questions
- 短文填空·责任与坚持 · 3 questions
- 短文填空·坚持练习华文 · 3 questions
- 短文填空·坚持练习的收获 · 4 questions
- 短文填空·坚持练习华文 · 4 questions
📖 Passage — refer back as you answer
母亲节快到了，欢欢想给妈妈准备一份特别的礼物。她想起妈妈每天辛苦地照顾全家，从不喊累。欢欢决定亲手做一张贺卡，上面画了一束美丽的鲜花。到了母亲节那天，当妈妈收到贺卡时，感动得哭了起来，紧紧抱住欢欢。爸爸在一旁（3）地说：“我们的欢欢长大了！”欢欢心里幸福极了，她终于明白，表达爱不需要昂贵的礼物，重要的是那份真诚的心意。
根据短文，第（3）空应填：