閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 524
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.  My Master’s thesis is on measuring the intellectual capital of certain enterprises.

I A.  hypothesizing

B. determining

C. speculating on

 

2.  As Taiwan’s industrial infrastructure is being transformed into a hi-tech infrastructure, an increasing fraction of companies’ capital is intellectual, and is intangible.

A. deposited

B. saved

C. converted

 

3.  This fact explains the urgency to measure the intellectual capital value of hi-tech firms.

A. immediacy

B.  deferment

C. procrastination

 

4.  This area of research is in its infancy in Taiwan and, hopefully my work will contribute to this evolving field.

A. mature stage

B. preliminary stage

C. commercialization stage

 

5.  This area of research is in its infancy in Taiwan and, hopefully my work will contribute to this evolving field.

A.  receding

B. recessive

C. emerging

 

6.  My graduate school research focuses on intellectual capital of on-line gaming companies in an attempt to identify its essential components.

A.  concentrates on

B.  deflects from

C.  transgresses from

 

7.  My graduate school research focuses on intellectual capital of on-line gaming companies in an attempt to identify its essential components.

A. trivial

B. indispensable

C. immaterial

   

8.  I am especially interested in adopting the perspective of a loaning bank institution to assess the intellectual capital assets of an on-line gaming company and, then, to compare the intellectual capital of a bank with that of such a company.

A. outlook

B. mirage

C.  illusion

 

9.  Also, if you find my area of research compatible with that of yours, perhaps we could collaborate in some way in the near future.

A. out of place 

B. conducive to

C. incongruous


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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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