Since the 1950s, discourse analysis has gained achievements, and has drawn world-wide attention. However, few researches have been carried out in the field of text linguistics on BEC2, especially on the sentence-filling section. The intention of this study is to high-light the cohesive functions in the sentence-filling section in BEC2, and tries to obtain some first-hand materials in order to carry out fur-ther and in-depth studies in this area in order to improve the student’s testing performance. Specially, the purpose is to find out the fre-quency of cohesive devices in the sentence-filling section in BEC2 and to find out how these cohesive devices contribute to students’ per-formance in it.
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