閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 629
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 an excellent therapy for lung cancer patients, tomotherapy not only enables precise image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy, but also provides valuable information regarding tumor changes during radiotherapy.

I A. obscure 

B. explicit 

C. dubious   

　

2. Tomotherapy thus represents the future of image-guided IMRT in cancer treatment.  The Cancer Center of National Taiwan University (NTU) utilizes all available resources to combat cancer.

A. confront  

B. abdicate

C. relinquish

　

3. Numerous investigations have demonstrated the potential of tomotherapy in many unexplored areas in radiation oncology.

A. potency    

B. ineptitude   

C. feebleness

　

4. As a compact, cost effective and high precision radiation therapeutic treatment system, tomotherapy includes a primary beam-shield that reduces the operational costs associated with room shielding, an on-board oncology CT system, a rapid inverse planning system with a built-in optimizer, a full network with DICOM input, and a built-in patient scheduler.

A. leviathan    

B. grandiose

C. miniaturized  

　

5. Taking TomoImage scans before each treatment enables physicians to determine whether a tumor is shrinking.

A. expanding

B. amplifiying

C. recoiling 

　

6. After four or five weeks of treatment, the treatment dosage can be decreased as the tumor size shrinks.

A. curative measure    

B. malady  

C. pathology

　

7. Known as slice therapy because it derives from tomography or cross-sectional imaging, the tomotherapy system resembles a computed tomography system: the patient lies on a bench that moves continuously through a rotating ring gantry.

A. emits    

B. originates   

C. expels

　

8. The gantry is fitted with a linear accelerator, which delivers a fan beam of photon radiation as the ring turns.

A. separated    

B. conjoined   

C. divided  

9. The couch movement combined with the gantry rotation means that the radiation beam spirals around the patient.

A. twists  

B. obstructs   

C. blocks  

　

10. Tomotherapy delivers intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) using a multileaf collimator.

A. impedes   

B. obstructs  

C. transmits  

　

11. A recent advance in radiation treatment involves IMRT altering the size, shape and intensity of the radiation beam depending on tumor size, shape and location.

A. distorting  

B. amending  

C. blemishing  

　

12. Tomotherapy achieves better cancer patient survival rates than other therapeutic treatment systems.

A.enhanced    

B. regressing  

C. repetitive 

　

13. The Cancer Center at NTU plans to collaborate with two innovators in this field: Professor Thomas Rockwell Mackie, a leading medical physicist, and Paul J. Reckwerdt, an accomplished mathematician and software engineer.

A. struggle    

B. compete  

C. cooperate 

　

14. Moreover, Tomotherapy Incorporated holds 70 patented technologies in this area, providing a valuable source of information for further understanding advanced applications of the tomotherapy system.

A. destination  

B. origin

C. arrival  

　

15. Although some clinicians do not consider tomotherapy a mature technology, preliminary results for treating prostate and lung cancer are encouraging.

A. worldly   

B. rudimentary  

C. gullible   

　

16. The precision of tomotherapy offers therapeutic potential for cancer patients ineligible for radiotherapy.

A. approved    

B. authorized  

C. unqualified   

　

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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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