閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 634
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. With more than a century of history, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) symbolizes the evolution of the Taiwanese medical care sector.

I A.  retrogression

B.  fruition

C.  reversion

　

2. The hospital has two main buildings, and the western wing was the largest and most modern hospital in Southeast Asia upon its construction in 1898. 

A.  erection  

B.  demolition

C.  eradication

　

3. Committed to nurturing medical talent and developing outstanding research capabilities, NTUH strives to set precedents for the entire medical community.

A.  repetition

B.  recurrences

C.  paradigms  

　

4. Given the inestimable value of life and the growth in global health consciousness, NTUH is globally renowned as a premier teaching hospital in Asia.

A.  sure-thing

B.  predictable

C.  fathomless  

　

5. Regarding the organizational structure of NTUH, decision making is performed by the secretarial department.

A.  systematic

B.   unruly

C.  disjoined

　

6. Meanwhile, the administrative department comprises the financial, personnel, accounting, information technology and other smaller units.

A.  lacks

B.  embodies

C.  falls short of

　

7. Furthermore, the medical departments include the nutritional, pharmaceutical, nursing and aesthetic units, as well as the hepatitis research center. 

A.  materialistic

B.  artistic  

C.   sedentary

　

8. The medical departments also include various units within the hospital, including three major departments involved in medical radiology.

A.  refrained

B.  abstained

C.  engaged  

　

9. First, the nuclear medicine department provides radiological images for diagnosis by injecting radiological pharmaceuticals and using advanced methods such as PET.

A.  inserting

B.  extracting

C.  extricating

　

10. Second, the medical imaging department produces general diagnostic images using x-ray MRI examinations.

A.  oversights

B.  dereliction

C.  investigations  

　

11. Third, the cancer therapy center provides therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

A.  treatment  

B.  prevention

C.  aversion

　

12. NTUH is recognized as an international leader in several fields, especially hepatitis, organ transplantation, nasal and paralegals cancer, liver and stomach cancer therapy and antivenin research.

A.  innovator   

B.  apprentice

C.  emulator

　

13. As a teaching hospital, NTUH stresses education and research as well as medical services. In terms of education, the hospital seeks to foster medical talent in various fields by following a strong medical curriculum.

A.  constrain

B.  nurture

C.  inhibit

　

14. As for research, NTUH integrates the resources of various fields and adopts state-of-the-art equipment to yield optimal research results.

A.  segment

B.  partition

C.  amalgamate  

　

15. Regarding medical services, the hospital focuses on serving patient needs and strengthening its organizational structure.

A.  taming

B.  invigorating  

C.  domesticating

　

16. Besides offering nursing home care services, NTUH actively encourages international cooperation to remain abreast of global trends in medicine.

A.  in tune with  

B.  opposed to

C.  distrustful of

 

　

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Additional practice can be found in  Writing Effective Study Plans by Ted Knoy for some of these definitions.

View the accompanying Power Point presentation on details of how to write this paragraph.

 

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