閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 510
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.  Our hospital constantly strives to promote its long-term care facilities and services, and offers medical treatment to meet the demands of the growing elderly population. 

I A. sporadically

B. intermittently

C. perpetually

 

2.  Our hospital constantly strives to promote its long-term care facilities and services, and offers medical treatment to meet the demands of the growing elderly population. 

A.  aspires

B.  renounces

C.  relinquishes

 

3.  Our hospital constantly strives to promote its long-term care facilities and services, and offers medical treatment to meet the demands of the growing elderly population. 

A. adolescent

B. aging

C. younger

 

4.  They require urgent medical treatment daily, with efficient follow-up services, including discharge planning, respiratory care, nursing facilities and home care as part of a visiting nursing program.

A. immediate

B. discontinued

C. postponed

 

5.  They require urgent medical treatment daily, with efficient follow-up services, including discharge planning, respiratory care, nursing facilities and home care as part of a visiting nursing program.

A. nervous system-related

B.  circulatory

C. breathing

 

6.  Despite our aspirations, our hospital is lacking in many of the above areas, explaining the lack of confidence among patients and their relatives in the quality of medical care offered by Taiwanese hospitals.

A. hesitations

B. intentions

C. reservations

 

7.  Despite our aspirations, our hospital is lacking in many of the above areas, explaining the lack of confidence among patients and their relatives in the quality of medical care offered by Taiwanese hospitals.

A.  absence

B.  surplus

C.  glut

 

8.  How do governmental authorities in your country implement long-term care national policies?

A. registrants

B.  participants

C.   lawmakers

 

9.   What measures can be adopted to control the quality of long term care services?

A.  characters

B.  steps

C.  qualities

 

10.  Once final arrangements are made, please advise us of the consultant’s flight details so that we can meet him/her at the airport.   

A.   specifics

B.   inferences

C.  suggestions

 

11 Each lecture will last two hours, and the consultant will be reimbursed with a speech honorarium.

A. billed

B.  charged for

C.  refunded

 

12  Each lecture will last two hours, and the consultant will be reimbursed with a speech honorarium.

A.   payment for transportation

B.   payment for lecture

C.   payment for accommodations


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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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