一、语篇型语法填空的形式
在一篇200词左右的语篇(短文或对话)中留出10处空白，部分空白的后面给出单词的基本形式，要求考生根据上下文填写空白处所需的内容，所填写词语不得超过三个。
二、语篇型语法填空的测试点
主要包括动词时态、语态、情态动词、非谓语动词、名词、形容词、副词、连词、冠词、代词、介词、复合句、强调句、感叹句、倒装句、反意疑问句、省略句、定于从句的连接词和it的用法等。
三、语篇型语法填空的解题思路
考生在对题目进行作答之前，要先对题干进行详细阅读，检查题目中是否有提示词语存在;而后判断出所填词语在句子中所充当的句子成分，例如，主语、谓语等;最后根据其所充当的句子成分，加之其所处句子的语态等，选择词语的正确形式，例如，动词的现在分词或者过去分词，或者形容词的比较或者最高级的使用等。
在句子中没有提示词或者标志词存在时，考生要根据句子中所填词语的位置，判断所填词语的词性，例如，连接词、定冠词或者不定冠词、代词或者介词等。定冠词以及不定冠词的位置通常在名词之前，起到对名词进行限制的作用。而代词则分为形容词性物主代词、名词性代词、指示代词和不定代词等。在运用介词的时候，往往考查介词的固定搭配，其中包括动词、形容词等与介词的搭配。
语法填空的题目虽然难度相对较大，考查范围相对较广，考生失分现象较为严重，但是只要考生能够清楚地了解这类题目的命题特点和命题规律，掌握答题的技巧，在备考的过程中有针对性地多加练习，熟练语法的运用，及时对经验进行总结，加强在语篇情境下的语法应用能力，在考试中就能提高语法填空题的准确率，取得较为理想的成绩。
四、语篇型语法填空例题语法填空解题技巧
例一、对话体
Mum: (putting on her coat) I am going to go down to the shop for more bread.
Alan: Why?
Mum: I am not sure what 1 (happen). I made some sandwiches earlier and left them on the table 2 I went to answer the phone. But someone must have taken them because they’re 3 (go).
Alan: Oh, it must have been Dad. I’m sure he was in the kitchen 4 (early).
Mum: No, he went off to his tennis match before I finished 5 (make) them, so he couldn't have done it. 6 , he couldn’t carry a plate of sandwiches as well as all his tennis stuff, so I’m sure 7 wasn’t him.
Alan: (opening the fridge door) Well, it wasn’t me. But Mum, look! Are these your sandwiches here on the bottom shelf of 8 fridge?
Mum: Are they there? Oh, my goodness. I 9 (put) them in there when the phone rang. Oh, dear. I really must be losing my 10 . Now, why did I put on my coat?
答案：
1. happened
2. when
3. gone
4. earlier
5. making
6. Anyway
7. it
8. the
9. must have put 10. mind/memory
例二、短文体
One of my father’s favorite 1 (say) as I was growing up was “Try it!” I couldn't say I didn’t like something, 2 it might be, until after I tried it. Over the years I’ve come to realize how much of my success I owe to my 3 (accept) of those words as one of my values. My first job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I determined what I wanted to do as a career (职业). 4 (actual) I believed I would work for a few years, get 5 (marry), stay home and raise a family, so I didn’t think the job I took mattered that much. I couldn’t 6 more mistaken. I mastered the skills of that 7 (begin) level position and I was given the opportunity (机会) to move up through the company into 8 (differ) positions. I accepted each new opportunity with the thought,“Well, I’ll try it; 9 I don’t like it I can always go back to my 10 (early) position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years.
答案：
