閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 624
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. As a novel radiation therapy and planning system that can increase cure rates for cancer patients, tomotherapy offers the most advanced radiation delivery system available through its enhanced dose modulation and accurate targeting of specific locations.

I A. erroneous

B. precise

C. unsound

 

2. As a novel radiation therapy and planning system that can increase cure rates for cancer patients, tomotherapy offers the most advanced radiation delivery system available through its enhanced dose modulation and accurate targeting of specific locations.

A. precise

B. vague

C. ambiguous 

 

3. Tomotherapy allows physicians to verify treatment volumes in advance through 3D imagery via TomoImage scanning, ensuring that treatment fits a therapeutic strategy.

A. brush off

B. gloss over

C. substantiate 

 

4. Additionally, this system delivers helical tomotherapy to targets while minimizing damage to healthy tissue, thus optimizing dose delivery for all patients.

A. maximizing

B. diminishing

C. depreciating

 

5. Pioneered by Professor Thomas Rockwell Mackie and the mathematician and software engineer Paul J. Reckwerdt at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ten years ago, tomotherapy combines a treatment planning optimizer, a linear accelerator, computed tomography (CT) and a complex intensity modulation radiation therapy (IMRT).

A. Sabotaged

B. Undermined

C. Created

 

6. Pioneered by Professor Thomas Rockwell Mackie and the mathematician and software engineer Paul J. Reckwerdt at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ten years ago, tomotherapy combines a treatment planning optimizer, a linear accelerator, computed tomography (CT) and a complex intensity modulation radiation therapy (IMRT).

A. potency

B. infirmity

C. decrepitude

 

7. Among its unique features, tomotherapy offers precise planning through using a treatment planning optimizer that is easier to use than conventional treatment planning systems.

A. universal

B. peerless

C. orthodox

 

8. Moreover, tomotherapy ensures precise positioning through using a unique verification CT to confirm the tumor position before each treatment, enabling precise delivery of the radiation dosage.

A. allotment

B. retraction

C. recantation 

 

9. Furthermore, tomotherapy also ensures precise delivery of the prescribed dosage to the intended area owing to its ability to combine complex IMRT with spiral delivery, thus concentrating the radiation on the tumor and depositing less radiation in surrounding healthy tissue.

A. involuntary

B. inadvertent

C. contrived

 

10. In sum, this therapeutic treatment system is widely anticipated to be adopted among hospital oncology departments to provide enhanced medical care for cancer patients.

A. miscalculated

B. forecasted

C.  undervalued

 


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