閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 621
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. Wound care treatment is crucial in nursing care, and involves the assessment of wound severity and appropriate treatment.

I A. out of character

B. unsuited

C. adequate

　

2. Increasing life expectancies globally over the past three decades, a growing elderly population and the eradication or alleviation of many systemic diseases have all contributed to the urgent need to clinically treat patients with chronic illnesses, especially those with difficult to heal wounds. 

A. tectonics

B. annihilation 

C. fabrication

　

3. While striving to heal patients with wounds by adopting the latest therapeutic treatment strategies, medical personnel benefit not only patients, but also their relatives and society as a whole. 

A. cataclysmic

B.  incendiary

C. curative

　

4. Reducing wound healing times reduces fatality rates, inhibits disease growth during the early stages, alleviates the burden on relatives in terms of manpower and financial resources and reduces hospital expenditures, ultimately reducing already strained National Health Insurance resources.  

A. represses

B. instigates

C. provokes

　

5. Statistics demonstrate the severity of this problem.

A. camouflage

B. conceal

C. substantiate

　

6. In the United States alone, over 1 million patients seek treatment annually for chronic wounds, with treatment costs totaling several hundred million dollars.

A. subtracting

B. rescinding

C. accumulating

　

7. Expenses associated with length of hospital stay and the extent of wound care treatment are valuable indexes of the severity of the wound treatment problem.

A. fraction

B. magnitude

C. segment

　

8. Thus, Taiwanese hospital administrators are increasingly emphasizing the need to reduce wound treatment associated costs in clinical practice.

A. squelching

B. shunting

C. punctuating

　

9.  A recently developed wound management procedure, vacuum-assisted closure (VAC), applies negative pressure to a wound through a porous, open-cell foam that fills the wound cavity.

A. nullifying

B.  supplemental

C.  additional

　

10. The advantages include rapid wound healing, reduced pain, shorter hospital stays, lower medical costs and less need for nursing care. 

A.  merits

B. liability

C.  hindrance

　

11. This procedure can also be applied to patients with multiple wounds, as well as to recurring wounds suffered by many elderly patients. 

A.  preventive

B.  incessant

C.  deterrent

　

　

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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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