English Language Teaching (ELT) has been with us for many years and its significance continues to grow, fuelled, partially at

least, by the Internet. Graddol's study (2000) suggests that there were about a billion English learners in the year 2000 - but a 

decade later, the numbers will have doubled. The forecast points to a surge in English learning, which could peak in 2010. The 

same study indicates that over 80% of information stored on the Internet is in English. For the first time in history there are 

more non-native than native users of the language and diversity of context in terms of learners' age, nationality, learning 

background etcetera has become a defining characteristic of ELT today. What does this imply? Technological innovations have 

gone hand-in-hand with the growth of English and are changing the way in which we communicate, work, trade, entertain and 

learn. And it is non-native users of English, frequently from Asian countries, who are arguably, at the heart of this. It is fair to 

assert that the growth of the Internet has facilitated the growth of the English language and that this has occurred at a time when 

computers are no longer the exclusive domain of the dedicated few, but rather widely available to many. Warchauer (2002) has 

discussed this change in terms of conflicts between local identities and the globalization of the English language; while others 

have suggested that the Internet may be a contributory factor in shifting away from a communicative towards a context-based 

approach to language teaching pedagogy. The notion of widespread availability requires some qualification as there are clearly 

important issues of a 'digital divide' and 'electronic literacy'. This issue is frequently presented as being between nations  and it is 

clearly the case that the most powerful economies dominate Internet activity; but such a perspective explains unequal power 

relations purely from the influence of external factors and the picture is surely more complex than this. The same type of 

economic power relations also exist within nations, and divisions of social classes within are equally important here. In short, it 

is the middle and upper classes in virtually every country who have much greater access to computers, it is the Asian countri es 

which are experiencing massive growth as their economies develop and change. Change of this magnitude clearly raises a 

number of issues for ELT and, it is argued, necessitates a revision of traditional definitions of what constitutes the English 

language as well as a move away from the established EFL/ESL classifications and towards a less culturally loaded view of 

English as a global or international language (EGL/EIL). This in turn has implications for language pedagogy and approaches 

to syllabus design.

Wright carried over his emphasis on horizontal lines to his design of a skyscraper, which had huge horizontal projections at the top. Here, regrettably, horizontal lines create a sense of heaviness instead of tranquility. Likewise, Wright’s love for low proportions led him to design large houses with so much space that heating them in winter cost a fortune. His clients, of course, were mostly millionaires who could afford it. 

   After more than a month of furious, antigovernment demonstrations across France, it is easy to forget that a gasoline tax set all this off. Many of these protesters, predominantly white working poor and middle-class people who scrape by on their paychecks and ____31____, live in what the author Christophe Guilluy has called “peripheral France.” The term is meant to imply both a state of being and the thousands of small, struggling cities, towns and rural districts ____32____ the inner-ring suburbs of places like Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon or Lille. 

   As small businesses have been dying in these smaller cities and towns, people find themselves forced to seek jobs elsewhere and to shop even for basic goods in ____33____. They need cars to survive, because regional trains and buses have declined or no longer serve them. Once we begin to unpack the Yellow Vest ____34____, the uprising is a lot about mobility. 

   Mobility is closely about globalization and ____35____. Nevertheless it means more than trains, planes and automobiles, after all. It also includes social and ____36____ mobility. While some are rich enough to transfer money out of the country, some are too poor to afford a car. As a handful of big cities thrived with globalization, France’s regional governments, saddled with more financial burdens, became caught in a dire ____37____. Capital disappeared along with factories and jobs. Revenues shrank, debts mounted and ____38____ declined. Among the hardest hit services were the regional railways, run by the French rail company, SNCF, which overwhelmingly invested in high-speed trains that served the big, prospering cities and is now $56 billion in debt. With service beginning to ____39____, people need their cars. That is why the gasoline tax exposed a profound cultural ____40____, and weeks of protests by the Yellow Vests have made that clear. 

(AB) atrophy (AC) augment (AD) beyond (AE) breach (BC) economic (BD) inequity 

(BE) infrastructure (CD) malls (CE) pensions (DE) phenomenon (ABC) quagmire (ABD) within

        For people in Taiwan, sometimes it’s difficult to imagine what a life without enough food would be like. However, as a matter of fact, a great number of people around the world are suffering from hunger. According to a new report just released by the United Nations, almost one in eight people worldwide doesn’t have enough food. The report mentions that around 842 million people, about 12 percent of the world population, suffer from very serious hunger. Though the figure seems dismal, in fact it has gone down from 17 percent in 1992. The U. N. states that lots of countries still fail to find effective ways to feed their people, and Africa is the region with the highest number of undernourished people. To be more precise, in about 19 African nations, more than a quarter of the population goes hungry. Moreover, about 98 percent of the world’s starving people live in developing countries. 

        The term “undernourishment” is defined by the World Food Programme (WFP) as “not having enough food for an active and healthy life” and an inability to “meet dietary energy requirement.” The WFP even claimed that currently hunger is the biggest risk to people’s health around the world. It’s a more severe problem than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.One of the main reasons why so many people are hungry is war, which is evidenced by the fact that the developing countries having experienced war in the past 20 years have much greater difficulty feeding their people. What’s worse, many scientists are worried that the situation may deteriorate due to climate change. In other words, hotter climate in more countries will result in less harvest, which will give rise to more hunger in turn.

 The auroras get their name from__(13)__ of the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora. They were, until recently, the subject of several farfetched, though often romantic, suggestions about what caused them. The Sottish poet William Aytoun, for example, wrote in the 1800s that the lights were signs that a king or hero had died. 

Science now tells us,__(14)__ , that the auroras are actually caused when electrically charged particles from the sun clash with air molecules in Earth's atmosphere. Occurring anywhere from 60  to600 kilometers above Earth's surface, these __(15)__ result in dramatic banners of light that often resemble colorful draperies hanging in the glowing nighttime sky.