Exercise 522
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 pioneering work on decision theory, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP), I have read many of your published articles and am well aware of your more than 12 books on these topics.

I A.  prevailing

B.  conventional

C.   trailblazing

 

2.  Given your pioneering work on decision theory, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP), I have read many of your published articles and am well aware of your more than 12 books on these topics.

A.  unacquainted with

B.  cognizant of

C.  unconscious of

 

3.  As is well known, AHP has not only been extensively used in decision making in business, industry and government, but has also been often applied to multi-criteria decision problems that are large-scale and multiparty-oriented.

A.  voluminously

B.   selectively

C.  restrictively

 

4.  ANP has played a major role in various decisions, involving benefits, costs, opportunities, potential risks and the forecasting of outcomes.

A.   secondary

B.   predominant

C.   subordinate

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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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