閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 506
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 I mentioned in earlier correspondence, as a researcher at the Bioimage Laboratories at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, I am concerned with upgrading the precision of bioimaging instruments, which Taiwan severely lacks.

I A. communiqué

B. visit

C.  training

　

2.  As I mentioned in earlier correspondence, as a researcher at the Bioimage Laboratories at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, I am concerned with upgrading the precision of bioimaging instruments, which Taiwan severely lacks.

A. inaccuracy

B.  exactness

C.  ambiguousness

　

3.  As a global leader in the development of medical instrumentation, your laboratory definitely has much to offer our country as we attempt to increase our research capacity in this area.

A. impervious

B. disputably

C. unequivocally

　

4.  As a global leader in the development of medical instrumentation, your laboratory definitely has much to offer our country as we attempt to increase our research capacity in this area.

A.  magnitude

B.  encounter

C.  address

　

5.  Allow me to brief you on our ongoing projects.

A.  skirt the issue

B.  summarize

C. avoid the topic of discussion

　

6.  Allow me to brief you on our ongoing projects.

A.  current

B.  preceding

C.  onetime

　

7.  We are currently engaged in the synchronization firing of neural networks and their aggregation in the dictyostelium system.

A. refraining from

B.  abstaining from

C. participating in

　

8.  We are currently engaged in the synchronization firing of neural networks and their aggregation in the dictyostelium system.

A. dispersion

B.  accumulation

C. dissemination

　

9.  Often exhibiting unusual and physically interesting phenomena, these nonlinear complex systems are extensively adopted in materials science and exploited in particular technologies used in industrial applications.

A. extraordinary

B.  habitual

C. routine

　

10.  Often exhibiting unusual and physically interesting phenomena, these nonlinear complex systems are extensively adopted in materials science and exploited in particular technologies used in industrial applications.

A. verification

B. occurrences

C.  confirmation

　

11.  Often exhibiting unusual and physically interesting phenomena, these nonlinear complex systems are extensively adopted in materials science and exploited in particular technologies used in industrial applications.

A. taken out

B.  held back

C.  utilized

　

12.  Often exhibiting unusual and physically interesting phenomena, these nonlinear complex systems are extensively adopted in materials science and exploited in particular technologies used in industrial applications.

A. capitalized on

B. disregarded

C. overlooked

　

13.  State-of-the-art design program applications could automate a part of the experimental procedure, saving us considerable laboratory resources.

A. obsolete

B.  outmoded

C.  cutting edge

　

14.  I am confident that the upcoming visit to your laboratory will pave the way for a further exchange of data on the aforementioned program developments.

A. terminate   

B.  open doors 

C. abort

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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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