42. Definition of metacognition is as follows: learners’ ____________ of and control over their cognitive activities. That is, if cognition involves perceiving, understanding, remembering, and so forth, then metacognition involves thinking about one’s perceiving, understanding, and the rest.
(A) characteristics
(B) awareness
(C) compliance
(D) conscience

38. The teacher’s rigid and boring teaching methods only serve to _____________ kids’ creativity. (A) quench (B) squelch (C) explore (D) escort

39. English teachers should not ask every student to produce the same amount of words or sentences for a topic. As we all know, students’ levels ____________ a lot. It is meaningless to require a student of poor proficiency to write as much as those of high proficiency. (A) differentiate (B) diversify (C) defy (D) vary

40. In the movie The Bridges of Madison County, the director takes time to weave a melancholic impact upon the viewers who, ___________, moved by the subtle and delicate emotional changes of a plain housewife and the romantic tone created with music, candlelight, tight embraces, and understanding talks and smiles between her and the photographer, believe this is true love in middle-age. (A) little by little (B) day by day (C) out of the blue (D) out of thin air

41. The findings indicated that the major problems of learning English interrogatives for junior high school students in Taiwan was their ___________ to detect tense and their confusion about the use of the forms of be and do as question operators. (A) inclination (B) ideology (C) inability (D) tendency

43. Most junior and senior high students in Taiwan are not able to read English novels in their original version. Also, it is quite hard to find authentic English novels that contain only high-frequency vocabulary and simple sentences. ____________ that, a simplified version could be a good replacement. (A) In spite of (B) In light of (C) In terms of (D) In honor of

44. The author suggests a lot of good ideas to help students emotionally and intellectually involved with the main characters of the stories they read, how to deal with problems that concern people, and to understand the universal themes that ____________ all good literature. (A) permeate (B) permit (C) prevail (D) perish

45. Parents are often fairly ____________ about the digital world their children inhabit. About every parent has at one point asked their offspring to figure out how to use a new high-tech product for them. (A) savvy (B) discontent (C) aggressive (D) clueless

46. When it ______________ numbers, recent research suggests that infants can distinguish one object from two, and two from three. (A) comes to understand (B) comes understanding (C) comes to understanding (D) comes by understanding

47. A sparrow came and __________ at the breadcrumbs on my palm. It soon finished them all. (A) retracted (B) pecked (C) squinted (D) peeked

48. Social problems and poverty ____________ much of the crime in today’s big cities. They are mostly the root of violence. (A) undermine (B) underscore (C) undergo (D) underlie