閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 626
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. Before the Taiwanese government initiated the National Health Insurance Program in 1995, 13 different health insurance schemes covered nearly 60% of residents of Taiwan, with the remaining population left to pay for treatment entirely on their own.  

I A. impeded 

B. desisted

C. inaugurated 

　

2. To effectively address this problem, the Council for Economic Planning and Development established a planning committee in 1988 to develop a single mandatory and universal health insurance program.

A. volitional 

B. obligatory

C. voluntary

　

3. The program took effect in March 1995 after the Legislative Yuan passed the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act.

A. renounced

B. rebuffed

C. approved

　

4. The NHI Bureau was established to achieve three goals.

A. effectuate

B. abort

C. flounder

　

5. First, the NHI Bureau sought to ensure that all Taiwanese residents received insurance coverage.    

A. trammel  

B. subjugate

C. confirm

　

6. According to the Department of Health of Taiwan, around 96% of all Taiwanese residents had NHI program coverage as of December 1997.   

A. an excessive of

B. approximately

C. more than

　

7. Second, the NHI Bureau should improve medical care quality and increase competition among healthcare providers.  

A. collaboration

B. contention 

C. cooperation

　

8. Unlike under the previous system, under NHI patients can freely select where they receive medical care.

A. casually

B. ceremonially

C. rigidly  

　

9. Third, by implementing a Global Budget payment system and introducing payment on a per case basis rather than a per-visit basis, the NHI Bureau could help control hospital health care costs and resource utilization efficiency.

A. discarding  

B. jettisoning

C. promulgating   

　

10. This approach enabled the economic provision of high quality health care services.

A. mutilate

B. capacitated

C. mangle  

　

11. In sum, the NHI program has expanded the size and scope of the medical care sector, increased market competitiveness, and created incentives for continuously improving operational efficiency.

A. impetuses

B. impediments

C. stumbling blocks

　

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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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