試題詳解

47. Listening comprehension training is challenging because spoken language has lots of ________ which makes it difficult for language learners, such as “Howdy!” for “How are you doing?” (at the phonological level) or “How’s the weather today?” with the reply “Unpleasant” (at the syntactic level).
(A) rate of delivery
(B) clustering
(C) intonation
(D) reduced forms