閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 640
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. Established in 1988 as a producer of quality motors, Yuan Electrical Machinery Company has accumulated extensive experience in developing high-accuracy instrumentation and advanced machinery to meet diverse consumer needs. 

I A.  dissipate

B.  amass  

C.  disperse

 

2. The company closely collaborates with microcomputer machinery manufacturers and machinery calibrators to achieve accuracy and precision

A.  ambiguity

B.  approximation

C.  exactitude  

 

3. Additionally, the company adopts a closely supervised quality control inspection system in manufacturing to ensure that its motors have high torsion, low noise emissions and long life. 

A.  guarantee  

B.  nullify

C.  traverse

 

4. Machinery is exported mainly to Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States and other southeast Asian countries.  

A.  brought into the country

B.  sent from abroad

C.  shipped overseas  

 

5. Led by a chief administrator in charge of quality control, an administrative staff of 30 employees focuses on five to six quality control-related items.

A.  pertinent  

B.  irrelevant

C.  moot

 

6. Group leaders coordinate the efforts of employees in their groups by encouraging strong cooperation through constant training to drill members on independent problem solving skills. 

A.  muddle

B.  confound

C.  collocate  

 

7. The Administrative Department is mainly staffed by university graduates with backgrounds in quality control and related fields, with several also having masters and doctoral degrees in fields related to enhancing product quality. 

A.  depraving

B.  debasing

C.   elevating  

 

8. The Department recruits primarily from nearby universities and technological institutes, offering recent university graduates numerous management opportunities.

A.  incenses

B.  conscripts

C.  displeases

 

9. While adopting a global perspective towards manufacturing quality products, the department focuses on the following directions: rigorously controlling manufactured product quality to satisfy consumer demand, adopting advanced technologies to gain consumer confidence, emphasizing customer needs to ensure consumer expectations are satisfied and approaching management with a sense of community service.

A. flexibly

B.  leniently

C.  austerely  

 

10. Particularly, the Department emphasizes product quality by adopting the latest technological practices and stressing workplace safety.  

A.  invulnerability  

B.  perils

C.  predicaments

 

11. Demonstrating its commitment to excellence, the department contributed crucially to the company receiving ISO 9000 and 9002 product certification. 

A.   unequivocally

B.   inconsequentially

C.   evanescently

 

12. Furthermore, the Department is striving to achieve compliance with ISO 14000 standards, something which requires a thorough understanding of design quality and quality control to maintain sound manufacturing practices. 

A.  antipathy towards 

B.  objection to

C.  adherence to

 

 


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