Cohesive Devices Test
Cohesive Devices Test
I. Identify whether the bolded reference words below are anaphoric or cataphoric. (5pts)
For many years, East German people devised creative ways to sneak out of East Germany. Some
people dug tunnels; others tried crashing through checkpoints with cars, trucks, or buses; still others flew
out in small airplanes or balloons. One woman tied herself to the bottom of a car and passed through a
checkpoint unnoticed. And one family sewed fake Russian uniforms for themselves; then, they pretended
to be Russian soldiers and simply drove through a checkpoint. Some desperate people tried scrambling over
a barbed-wire fence or a wall. These people were often shot.
II. Read each sentence below. Underline the correct linking word or phrase. (5pts)
IV. Number the sentences in an appropriate order to form a coherent paragraph. (5pts)
_____ a. When it was being constructed in the early 1970s, its windows began cracking and falling to the
ground.
_____ b. They were replaced with plywood until the problem could be found and solved.
_____ c. The Hancock Tower in Boston is a thin, mirror-glass slab that rises almost eight hundred feet.
_____ d. Eventually, the cracking was blamed on the windows' rigid, double-paned glass.
_____ e. Single-pane windows were installed, and the plywood building crystallized into a shining jewel.