閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 617
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. Market demand for chemotherapy medicine has expanded owing to the increasing incidence of cancer, accelerating research efforts to develop more effective treatments.

I A. aversion

B. prevention

C. occurrence  

 

2. Besides chemotherapy for treating and preventing cancer, many food products with anti-cancer claims have recently been marketed.

A. granting

B. inhibiting

C. allocating

 

3. Public fear of cancer has led to the popularization of preventive measures.

A. paradigms

B. reluctance

C. repugnance 

 

4. For example, individuals who wish to prevent cancer are encouraged to avoid excessive drinking and smoking, get sufficient sleep, exercise, eat a nutritionally balanced diet and avoid greasy food.

A. temperate

B. moderate

C. exorbitant

 

5. Additionally, several biotech firms are developing foods with anti-cancer properties.

A. characteristics 

B. aberration

C. anomaly

 

6. Successful product commercialization will undoubtedly yield numerous benefits.

A. categorically

B. tentatively

C. speculatively

 

7. Cancer treatments include a) physical treatment, through organ removal and subsequent radiotherapy b) chemotherapy, which normally occurs after physical treatment and aims to remove all remaining cancer cells.

A. annexing

B. appending

C. extrication  

 

8. Cancer treatments include a) physical treatment, through organ removal and subsequent radiotherapy b) chemotherapy, which normally occurs after physical treatment and aims to remove all remaining cancer cells.

A. lingering

B. incipient

C. commencing

 

9. Regarding trends in the development of chemotherapy medicine, more effective chemotherapy drugs developed in the future may be able to prevent metastasis in cancer cells.

A. inclinations

B.  hesitations

C.  evasion

 

10. Such drugs would greatly reduce patient discomfort and the adverse effects of physical treatment during cancer therapy.

A. tranquility

B. solace

C.  malaise

 


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