閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

Exercise 390
Purpose: Increasing reading comprehension skills /加強閱讀技巧
Writing Effective Career Statements /有效撰寫英文職涯經歷


Pick the work or expression whose meaning is closest to the meaning of the underlined word or expression in the following passages.

 

1.    While biotechnology has emerged in Taiwan in recent years, the island severely lacks biotechnology professionals with management backgrounds, preventing Taiwan from keeping up with recent global trends in research and development.
  A. receded
  B.  appeared
  C.   diminished
   
2. While biotechnology has emerged in Taiwan in recent years, the island severely lacks biotechnology professionals with management backgrounds, preventing Taiwan from keeping up with recent global trends in research and development.
  A. deficient of
  B. abundance of
  C. excess of
     
3.  While biotechnology has emerged in Taiwan in recent years, the island severely lacks biotechnology professionals with management backgrounds, preventing Taiwan from keeping up with recent global trends in research and development.
  A.  assuring
  B. enabling
  C. averting
     
4.  Biotechnology has the potential to integrate seemingly polar disciplines to create new applications, methods and market sectors in Taiwan.
  A. limitation
  B. ability
  C. constraint
     
5.  Biotechnology has the potential to integrate seemingly polar disciplines to create new applications, methods and market sectors in Taiwan.
  A. diffuse
  B. divide
  C. combine
     
6.  Biotechnology has the potential to integrate seemingly polar disciplines to create new applications, methods and market sectors in Taiwan.
  A. improbable
  B. apparently
  C.  unlikely
     
7. Biotechnology has the potential to integrate seemingly polar disciplines to create new applications, methods and market sectors in Taiwan.
  A. opposite
  B.  compatible
  C.  unlikely
     
8. Biotechnology has the potential to integrate seemingly polar disciplines to create new applications, methods and market sectors in Taiwan.
  A.  markets
  B. fields
  C. commercialization
     
9. Taiwan's biotech sector has the potential to develop medical applications.
  A.  implementations
  B.  inhibitions
  C.  hindrances
     
10. As a recognized leader in the biotechnology sector, ABC Corporation can provide Jeff with an ideal working environment in which he can contribute to the development of innovative medical scientific applications.
  A. infamous
  B.  reputed
  C. cowardly
     
11. As a recognized leader in the biotechnology sector, ABC Corporation can provide Jeff with an ideal working environment in which he can contribute to the development of innovative medical scientific applications.
  A. lackluster
  B.  amateur
  C. creative
     
12. If successful in securing employment at this corporation, he will strive to enhance his research capabilities and professional knowledge.
  A. avoiding
 

B.

 relinquishing
  C. obtaining
     
13. If successful in securing employment at this corporation, he will strive to enhance his research capabilities and professional knowledge.
  A. attempt
 

B.

 avert
  C. block
     
14. Employment at ABC Corporation will undoubtedly provide Jeff with a practical context for his graduate school training, ensuring that he will not restrict himself to the scope of his previous research.
  A. vacation
 

B.

 work
  C. training
     
15. Employment at ABC Corporation will undoubtedly provide Jeff with a practical context for his graduate school training, ensuring that he will not restrict himself to the scope of his previous research.
  A. hypothetical
 

B.

 theoretical
  C. hands on
     
16. Employment at ABC Corporation will undoubtedly provide Jeff with a practical context for his graduate school training, ensuring that he will not restrict himself to the scope of his previous research.
  A. opening
 

B.

 range
  C. expansion
     

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