閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 503
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.  Given our concern over upgrading the quality of universal medical and teaching facilities worldwide, our organization, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), would like to apply for membership in your society.

I A.  disregard of

B. emphasis on

C.  neglect of

 

2.  Given our concern over upgrading the quality of universal medical and teaching facilities worldwide, our organization, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), would like to apply for membership in your society.

A. demoting

B. debasing

C.  ameliorating

 

3.  Having gained more than two decades of clinical experience in radiation therapy, NTHUH is the first medical institute and teaching hospital in Asia.

A. two hundred years

B. twenty months

C. twenty years

 

4.  Having gained more than two decades of clinical experience in radiation therapy, NTHUH is the first medical institute and teaching hospital in Asia.

A.  hospital-oriented

B.  administrative-oriented

C.  executive-oriented

 

5.  Pedagogical activities advance not only medical knowledge, but also the quality of health care.

A.  occupational

B. learning

C. teaching

 

6.  While aspiring to become a leading medical and teaching hospital worldwide, we hope to participate in the activities of other medical and teaching hospital organizations.

A.  pausing

B.  yearning

C.  procrastinating

 

7.  While aspiring to become a leading medical and teaching hospital worldwide, we hope to participate in the activities of other medical and teaching hospital organizations.

A. pioneering

B.  unsuccessful

C.   substandard

 

8.  For instance, the hospital’s Clinical Cancer Center has recently implemented a therapeutic planning system for cervical cancer, which is the most common cancer among women worldwide.

A. quell

B.  terminate

C.  put into effect

 

9.  For instance, the hospital’s Clinical Cancer Center has recently implemented a therapeutic planning system for cervical cancer, which is the most common cancer among women worldwide. 

A.  degenerative

B.  restorative

C.  retrogressive

 

10.  Continuing with the success of our organization by further upgrading our medical and teaching capabilities depends on our ability to be involved with in wide-reaching organizations such as yours, with a view to improving medical practice in Asia.

A.  aptitudes

B.  weak points

C.  infirmities

 

11.  Continuing with the success of our organization by further upgrading our medical and teaching capabilities depends on our ability to be involved with in wide-reaching organizations such as yours, with a view to improving medical practice in Asia.

A. profession

B.  entertainment

C.  leisure


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Additional practice can be found in  Writing Effective Study Plans by Ted Knoy for some of these definitions.

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