The Chinese Online Writing Lab

1.  Thank you for your message sent via e-mail and dated December 31, 2004, inviting our Taiwanese branch office to exhibit its innovative bedding and pillow products in Cologne, Germany on May 2005. 

I A. obscure

B. display

C. shroud

2.  Thank you for your message sent via e-mail and dated December 31, 2004, inviting our Taiwanese branch office to exhibit its innovative bedding and pillow products in Cologne, Germany on May 2005. 

A. lifeless

B. lackluster

C. ingenious

3.  Before participating in the exhibition, I would like to propose an information exchange relationship between our two organizations regarding the sleeping needs of elderly individuals, hopefully leading to a technology transfer or joint venture opportunity in the near future. 

A. disenfranchising

B. engaging in

C.  withdrawing from

4.  Before participating in the exhibition, I would like to propose an information exchange relationship between our two organizations regarding the sleeping needs of elderly individuals, hopefully leading to a technology transfer or joint venture opportunity in the near future.

A. adolescents

B. juveniles

C. senior citizens

5.  Before participating in the exhibition, I would like to propose an information exchange relationship between our two organizations regarding the sleeping needs of elderly individuals, hopefully leading to a technology transfer or joint venture opportunity in the near future.

A.  cooperative

B.  autonomous

C.  solitary

6.  Before participating in the exhibition, I would like to propose an information exchange relationship between our two organizations regarding the sleeping needs of elderly individuals, hopefully leading to a technology transfer or joint venture opportunity in the near future.

A.  undertaking

B.  regulation

C.   mandate

7.  The Taiwanese branch of this bedding company has increased its number of business units by pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy since 2000.

A. firm

B.  corporation

C.  subsidiary

8.  The Taiwanese branch of this bedding company has increased its number of business units by pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy since 2000.

A. abstain from

B. desist from

C. contending for

9.  The Taiwanese branch of this bedding company has increased its number of business units by pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy since 2000.

A.  inactive

B.  assertive

C.   insipid

10.  It has more than 20 units across the island and has seen a dramatic increase in sales volume.

A.  enshrouded

B.  witnessed

C.  obscured

11.  It has more than 20 units across the island and has seen a dramatic increase in sales volume.

A.  significant

B.  diminutive

C.  slight

12.  The branch office tentatively plans to construct a new factory next year and broaden its organizational scope.

A. speculatively

B.  unquestionably

C. indisputably

13.  The branch office tentatively plans to construct a new factory next year and broaden its organizational scope.

A.  cancel

B. terminate

C.  assemble

14.  The branch office tentatively plans to construct a new factory next year and broaden its organizational scope.

A. expand

B. confine

C. constrain

15.  Franchises are helped to outperform the competition, as evidenced by our development of several bedding and pillow types and emphasis on electrically heated bedding and customized pillows.

A.  surpass

B. lag behind

C. wane

16.  Franchises are helped to outperform the competition, as evidenced by our development of several bedding and pillow types and emphasis on electrically heated bedding and customized pillows.

A. conjectured

B. attested

C. assumed

17.  Franchises are helped to outperform the competition, as evidenced by our development of several bedding and pillow types and emphasis on electrically heated bedding and customized pillows.

A.  dilapidation

B.  disrepair

C. stress

18.  Franchises are helped to outperform the competition, as evidenced by our development of several bedding and pillow types and emphasis on electrically heated bedding and customized pillows.

A. standard

B. tailored

C. conventional

19.  Taiwan’s elderly population has grown rapidly in recent years, and the bedding market has generated considerable revenues. 

A.  inhabitants

B.  emigrants

C.  refugees

20.  Taiwan’s elderly population has grown rapidly in recent years, and the bedding market has generated considerable revenues.

A.  awkwardly

B.  sluggishly

C.  expeditiously

21.  Given this trend, the R&D Division of the Taiwanese branch has committed significant resources to designing bedding customized for elderly individuals.

A.  diverted

B.  withdrawn

C.  relegated

22.  Given this trend, the R&D Division of the Taiwanese branch has committed significant resources to designing bedding customized for elderly individuals.

A. marginal

B. substantial

C.  peripheral

  23.  Given this trend, the R&D Division of the Taiwanese branch has committed significant resources to designing bedding customized for elderly individuals.

A.  assets  

B. liabilities

C. deficits

  24.  The Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs has already granted the relevant patents.  

A. approved

B.  turned down

C.  rebuffed

25.  Given our headquarters’ vast knowledge of consumer trends and technological developments in this area, we would like to exchange product information and manufacturing technology expertise with your R&D unit.

A. circumscribed

B.  immense

C. confined

  26. Given our headquarters’ vast knowledge of consumer trends and technological developments in this area, we would like to exchange product information and manufacturing technology expertise with your R&D unit.

A. purchasing patterns

B.  selling patterns

C.  investment patterns

  27. Germany has distinguished itself in the latest technological developments in bedding comfort, the marketing of these products, and consumer relations in this niche. 

A.  denigrated itself

B. made a reputation for itself

C. played down itself

  28. Germany has distinguished itself in the latest technological developments in bedding comfort, the marketing of these products, and consumer relations in this niche. 

A. corner of the market

B. development of the market

C. potential of the market

  29. To initiate this collaborative relationship, five colleagues from the Taiwan branch (including myself) would like to visit your R&D unit, this upcoming January, hopefully to meet with your departmental managers and research personnel.

A. trigger

B. curtail

C. retrench

30.  To initiate this collaborative relationship, five colleagues from the Taiwan branch (including myself) would like to visit your R&D unit, this upcoming January, hopefully to meet with your departmental managers and research personnel.

A. agitated

B. hostile

C. cooperative

  31. To initiate this collaborative relationship, five colleagues from the Taiwan branch (including myself) would like to visit your R&D unit, this upcoming January, hopefully to meet with your departmental managers and research personnel.

A. management

B.  staff

C. board of directors

32.   Let me know which dates would be the most convenient for such a visit.

A. burdensome

B. expedient

C.  annoying

  33.  I look forward to this mutually beneficial, cooperative effort.

A. personally

B. autonomously

C. reciprocally

  34. I look forward to this mutually beneficial, cooperative effort.

A. inopportune

B.  advantageous

C. onerous

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