閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 515
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 your eminence in the field of marketing, we would like formally to invite you to participate as an Invited Speaker at the upcoming Internet Marketing Symposium to be held at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) on February 10, 2005.

I A.  infamy

B.  notoriety

C.  esteem

　

2.  We hope that your lecture will cover recent trends and developments in Internet-based advertising and marketing strategies.

A.  primeval

B.  primordial

C.  up-to-the-minute

　

3.  We hope that your lecture will cover recent trends and developments in Internet-based advertising and marketing strategies.

A. inclinations

B.  relapses

C.   reversals

　

4.  I advise you to extend your visit until March 26 to give you time to tour some of Taiwan’s areas of natural beauty. 

A.   curtail

B.  condense

C.   elongate

　

5.  If so, please send us your lecture title and related handouts before December 31, 2004.

A.  dissimilar

B.  affiliated

C.  divergent

　

6.  I will be in touch with you shortly regarding further details of the symposium and travel arrangements.

A.  line

B.  place

C.  contact

　

7.  Your contribution to the symposium would definitely benefit all of the participants.

A. inconclusively

B.  indisputably

C. indecisively

　

8.  Your contribution to the symposium would definitely benefit all of the participants.

A.  avail

B.  impede

C.  frustrate

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

View the accompanying Power Point presentation on details of how to write this paragraph.

 

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