Abstract
The continuation task is a new form of reading-to-write integrated task in which test-takers read an incomplete story and then write the continuation and ending of the story. It has been increasingly used in writing assessment in China. It can test students’ comprehensive ability of reading and writing. This type of writing task first appeared in 2016 National Matriculation English Test (Zhejiang Province version). In this paper, the author reviews the research and summarizes that the continuation task is more suitable for the language ability testing of Chinese college entrance examination candidates. What`s more, after making a content validity analysis of the NMET (Zhejiang) and NMET (Shandong) in 2020, the author found that this task has the characteristics of moderate openness and helpful to the examination of creative thinking ability.
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