閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 499
Purpose: Increasing reading comprehension skills /加強閱讀技巧

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

 

1.  As a member of the technical staff of the Nuclear Medicine Department at S.W.M Memorial Hospital, I am involved in various stages of the therapeutic treatment of acute stroke patients.

I A. employees

B. supervisors

C. administrators

 

2.  As a member of the technical staff of the Nuclear Medicine Department at S.W.M Memorial Hospital, I am involved in various stages of the therapeutic treatment of acute stroke patients.

A. impaired

B. debilitative

C. curative

 

3.  As a member of the technical staff of the Nuclear Medicine Department at S.W.M Memorial Hospital, I am involved in various stages of the therapeutic treatment of acute stroke patients.

A.  mild

B.  severe

C. subdued

 

4.  Given your institution’s state-of-the-art technology and advanced expertise in neurology, I would like to propose a technological information exchange between our two hospital departments on the subject of treating patients with brain ischemia and acute brain stroke.

A. rudimentary

B. primal

C. cutting edge

 

5.  Given your institution’s state-of-the-art technology and advanced expertise in neurology, I would like to propose a technological information exchange between our two hospital departments on the subject of treating patients with brain ischemia and acute brain stroke.

A. formative

B.  preliminary

C.  progressive

 

6.  Given your institution’s state-of-the-art technology and advanced expertise in neurology, I would like to propose a technological information exchange between our two hospital departments on the subject of treating patients with brain ischemia and acute brain stroke.

A.  adeptness

B. imperfection

C. inferiority

 

7.  Medical research in Taiwan heavily emphasizes stroke-related factors leading to mortality.

A. atypically

B. scarcely

C. profoundly

 

8.  Medical research in Taiwan heavily emphasizes stroke-related factors leading to mortality.

A.  negates

B. plays down

C. punctuates

 

9.  Medical research in Taiwan heavily emphasizes stroke-related factors leading to mortality.

A.  life expectancy

B. death

C. birthrate

 

10.  Our hospital has spent considerable resources to reduce the risk of stroke and solve problems that involve blood flow in the brain.

A.  safeness

B. invulnerability

C. peril

 

11.  As growth in the medical technology sector appears to be unlimited, the neurological department of our hospital is committed to overcoming stroke-related illnesses and reducing the incidence rate of strokes in Taiwan.

A. boundless

B. finite

C.  hemmed in

 

12.  As growth in the medical technology sector appears to be unlimited, the neurological department of our hospital is committed to overcoming stroke-related illnesses and reducing the incidence rate of strokes in Taiwan.

A.  probability

B. prevalence

C. likelihood

 

13.  Progress in this area depends on the ability of medical institutions to share and exchange relevant experiences – and we look forward to an opportunity to do the same with you.

A. advances

B. relapses

C. recessions

 

14.  Progress in this area depends on the ability of medical institutions to share and exchange relevant experiences – and we look forward to an opportunity to do the same with you.

A. dictate

B.  impose

C.  reciprocate

 

15.  Your ability to differentiate the infarction area in irreversibly damaged tissue is a respectable achievement.

A.  blend

B.  combine

C.  distinguish

 

16.  Your ability to differentiate the infarction area in irreversibly damaged tissue is a respectable achievement.

A. reverberation

B. recurrence

C. irrevocably

 

17.  Your ability to differentiate the infarction area in irreversibly damaged tissue is a respectable achievement.

A.  injured

B. rejuvenated

C. regenerated

 

18.  Your ability to differentiate the infarction area in irreversibly damaged tissue is a respectable achievement.

A. infamous

B. disrepute

C.  laudable

 

19.  HMPAO SPECT can be used to determine the extent to which tracer uptake reduction can accurately predict neurological recovery and various programming languages can be used to write software to identify abnormal sites in the infarct area.

A. how

B. which

C.  why 

 

20.  HMPAO SPECT can be used to determine the extent to which tracer uptake reduction can accurately predict neurological recovery and various programming languages can be used to write software to identify abnormal sites in the infarct area.

A.  miscalculate

B. forecast

C.  undervalue

 

21.  HMPAO SPECT can be used to determine the extent to which tracer uptake reduction can accurately predict neurological recovery and various programming languages can be used to write software to identify abnormal sites in the infarct area.

A. retrieval

B. irreclaimable

C.  irreparable

 

22.  HMPAO SPECT can be used to determine the extent to which tracer uptake reduction can accurately predict neurological recovery and various programming languages can be used to write software to identify abnormal sites in the infarct area.

A.  conventional

B.  prevailing

C. deviant

 

  23. Given our hospital’s advanced PET technological capacity to reduce the incidence of stroke, such collaboration would be mutually beneficial, allowing both of our organizations to improve continuously expertise in medical diagnosis.

A.  retrospective

B.  forward-looking

C.  reflective

  

  24.  Given our hospital’s advanced PET technological capacity to reduce the incidence of stroke, such collaboration would be mutually beneficial, allowing both of our organizations to improve continuously expertise in medical diagnosis.

A.  irrelevance

B.  frequency

C.  insignificance

 

25.   Given our hospital’s advanced PET technological capacity to reduce the incidence of stroke, such collaboration would be mutually beneficial, allowing both of our organizations to improve continuously expertise in medical diagnosis.

A.  interruptedly

B.  incoherently

C.  incessantly


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