Table 1. Example stimulus materials used in the explicit and implicit language tasks in the present study.

Condition	Sentence
Example 1
HC	医生成功地为病人做手术使病人及时得到治疗。
	The patient got treatment in time after the doctor successfully finished the surgery.
LC	医生成功地为病人做诊断使病人及时得到治疗。
	The patient got treatment in time after the doctor successfully finished the diagnoses.
SV	医生成功地为病人做轮胎使病人及时得到治疗。
	The patient got treatment in time after the doctor successfully finished the tires.
Example 2
HC	由于伤病刘翔错过了机会让人们都十分惋惜。
	The people felt sorry for Liu Xiang as he missed the game due to disease.
LC	由于伤病刘翔错过了机会让人们都十分惋惜。
	The people felt sorry for Liu Xiang as he missed the chance due to disease.
SV	由于伤病刘翔错过了判断让人们都十分惋惜。
	The people felt sorry for Liu Xiang as he missed the judgment due to disease.

Note: Three types of sentences, high cloze (HC) sentences, low cloze (LC) sentences, and violation sentences (SV), were adopted to manipulate the difficulty levels of the sentence-level semantic unification in both the implicit and explicit language tasks.