Syllabus for the English Application Ability Examination in Colleges and Universities (Level A) 1. Examination Objects This syllabus is applicable to higher vocational education, general higher vocational education, and adult higher education who have completed all the contents stipulated in the "Basic Requirements" and students majoring in non-English majors at the second-level undergraduate technical colleges. 2. Nature of the examination The purpose of this examination is to assess the candidates' language knowledge, language skills and basic ability to use English to deal with general business and foreign-related communication. Its nature is a teaching-proficiency examination. 3. Examination Method and Content The examination method is a written test, which includes five parts: listening comprehension, grammatical structure, reading comprehension, translation (English to Chinese) and writing (or Chinese to English). The scope of the examination is all the contents stipulated in the "Basic Requirements" for Level A. Part 1: Listening Comprehensive (Listening Comprehensive) tests the candidate's ability to understand the dialogues, conversations and simple passages they listen to. The speaking speed of the listening materials is 120 words per minute. Dialogues, conversations and essays are mainly about daily life and practical communicative content. Vocabulary is limited to the range of 3,400 words in the "Vocabulary List" of the "Basic Requirements", and the communicative content covers the entire range of listening and speaking listed in the "Communication Scope List" of the "Basic Requirements". The score for this part accounts for 15% of the total score. The test time is 15 minutes. Part 2: Grammatical Structure (Structure) tests the candidate’s ability to apply grammatical knowledge. The test scope includes all the content specified in the "Grammar Structure Table" in the "Basic Requirements". The score for this part accounts for 15% of the total score. The test time is 15 minutes. Part 3: Reading Comprehension (Reading Comprehension) tests the candidate's ability to obtain information from written text materials. The total reading volume is about 1,000 words. The written materials tested in this part include general reading materials (culture, society, common sense, popular science, economics and trade, characters, etc.) and applied texts. It does not include literary materials such as poetry, novels, essays, etc. The content can be understood by students of various majors. understand. Among them, practical written materials account for about 60%. The language skills and vocabulary involved in the reading materials are limited to the full range of skills listed in the "Reading Skills Table" in the "Basic Requirements" and the range of 3,400 words in the "Vocabulary List"; except for general articles, the application texts for reading are limited to " The scope of reading and translation specified in the "Communication Scope Table" in "Basic Requirements", such as: correspondence, advertisements, instructions, business documents, contracts, abstracts, prefaces, etc. Mainly tests the following reading skills: 1. Understand the main idea and main idea of ??texts and paragraphs. 2． Master the facts and main plots in the text. 3． Understand the logical relationship of discourse context. 4. Make inferences about sentences and paragraphs. 5. Understand the author's purpose, attitude, and perspective. 6. Correctly understand the meaning of new words based on context. 7. Understand the conclusion of the text. 8. Convert information. The score for this part accounts for 35% of the total score. The test time is 40 minutes. Part 4: Translation---English to Chinese (Translation---English to Chinese) tests the candidate's ability to correctly translate English into Chinese. The translated materials are sentences and paragraphs, including general content and practical content (about 50% each); the vocabulary involved is limited to the 3,400 words in the "Glossary" of the "Basic Requirements". The score for this part accounts for 20% of the total score. The test time is 25 minutes. Part Five: Writing/Translation----Chinese to English (Writing/Translation----Chinese to English) tests the candidate's ability to write practical essays and letters, fill in English forms or translate short practical texts. The score for this part accounts for 15% of the total score. The test time is 25 minutes.