閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 525
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.  I hope that your stay in Taiwan allowed you to experience the difference between Asian and European cultures. 

I A. obstructed

B. permitted

C. prevented

 

2.  I hope that your stay in Taiwan allowed you to experience the difference between Asian and European cultures.

A.  equivalence

B. congruity

C.  contrast

 

3.  While recently perusing your association’s website, I became intrigued with the area of exhibition management skills.

A. scanning

B. neglecting

C. ignoring

 

4.  While recently perusing your association’s website, I became intrigued with the area of exhibition management skills. 

A. neutral towards 

B. detached from

C. aroused by     

 

5.  While working for CMP Taiwan, I coordinated several exhibitions at PIDA, allocating exhibition booths, constructing the booths, forwarding materials, and making travel arrangements.

A. arranged

B. blurred

C. confounded  

 

6.  While working for CMP Taiwan, I coordinated several exhibitions at PIDA, allocating exhibition booths, constructing the booths, forwarding materials, and making travel arrangements.

A.  retracting

B. recanting

C. appropriating

 

7.  While working for CMP Taiwan, I coordinated several exhibitions at PIDA, allocating exhibition booths, constructing the booths, forwarding materials, and making travel arrangements.

A.  erecting

B. exterminate

C. annihilate 

   

8.  However, I lack expertise on the management side, such as in planning and budgeting.

A.  surpass in

B.  fall short of

C.  exceed in

 

9.  Hopefully, this training program will enable me to solve some of our current problems, such as tightening budget constraints.

A.  lax

B. constricting

C.  unfettered

 

10.  Hopefully, this training program will enable me to solve some of our current problems, such as tightening budget constraints.

A.  accessibility

B.  attainability

C.  limitations

 

11.  The preliminary program schedule on the Internet includes a guide to the exhibited technologies, which is unnecessary from my perspective since all of the participants are senior professionals in this field.

A. finalized

B.  initial

C. completed

 

12.  The preliminary program schedule on the Internet includes a guide to the exhibited technologies, which is unnecessary from my perspective since all of the participants are senior professionals in this field.

A.  viewpoint

B.  background

C.  summary

 

13.  However, special events, selected brand image trade shows –to which particular brands are invited, could be highlighted in this program schedule, as such events will be of greatest benefit to the participants.

A. played down

B. de-emphasized

C.  accentuated


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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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