5. Normal communication is permeated by the pressures of processing language in real-time. The mature learner, when adopting comprehension strategies, will bypass ______ for it is meanings that are primary.
(A) phonemes
(B) ellipsis
(C) contexts
(D) syntax 

1. Which of the following might NOT be emphasized in Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)? (A) Using language to communicate in real-life situations. (B) Identifying what is appropriate if given the context. (C) Identifying and memorizing new sounds. (D) Emphasizing the social use of language in the learning process.

2. In terms of application to language teaching, ______-based approaches make use of large databases of language to offer access to the investigation of patterns of lexis, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and textual features. (A) task (B) corpus (C) grammar (D) cognition

3. Which of the following might happen when English is used for cross-cultural learning? (A) Learning should focus on the target language’s culture. (B) Curricula should stress the English-speaking people’s customs and values. (C) Intensive and extensive listening and reading of the target language are emphasized. (D) Lexical innovation and the processes of acculturation are acknowledged.

4. Which of the following does NOT belong to the three parameters Halliday (1994) characterizes as in all spoken and written texts in his systemic functional grammar? (A) code (B) mode (C) field (D) tenor

II. Vocabulary（6-15 題，共 10 題）6. The ______ and the far-reaching results of his work are coming to be more and more appreciated by the indigenous people. (A) autocracy (B) destitution (C) magnitude (D) longitude

7. Born with an inquiring mind, he finds doubts and scruples better than resolves them and always has some argument to ______ himself. (A) nonplus (B) ameliorate (C) incarnate (D) resound

8. The specific appropriation of some distinctive oath raised the presumption that it implied an ______ pledge of sincerity. (A) elliptical (B) unequivocal (C) umbilical (D) optical

9. A startling number of these athletes, who are presumably performing ______ feats in their training, are falling way short of their sleep goals. (A) herculean (B) promiscuous (C) petulant (D) sardonic 

10. Higher rates of mask-wearing are strongly ______ with lower transmission rates, and especially as the country faces extraordinarily high case counts, it’s more important than ever to mask up properly. (A) impregnated (B) enshrined (C) legitimated (D) correlated

11. Our circumstances have made people more susceptible to ______ bouts of grief as depression and mourning keep lingering without showing a sign of recession. (A) prolonged (B) abbreviated (C) intercepted (D) recommended