閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 643
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. China Motors Corporation (CMC) recently constructed a project documentation and version control (PDVC) system, thus increasing its productivity and enhancing its competitive edge in the domestic automotive sector. 

I A.  atrophy

B.  ingenuity

C.  retrogression

　

2. Previously, new automobiles were spray painted on the factory floor, an inefficient and time consuming process. 

A.  potent

B.  inept  

C.  puissant

　

3. The advanced PDVC system improves automation control technologies by foreseeing potential production bottlenecks.

A.  recalling

B.  reminiscing

C.  prognosticate

　

4. Whereas global automakers generally produce cars in large quantities, CMC produces a smaller quantity of more diverse products. 

A.  heterogeneous

B.  uniform

C.  homogeneous

　

5. Demonstrating its success, the PDVC system has reduced personnel numbers on the factory floor from fifteen to six, while reducing wasted storage capacity from 68,071 to 55,031 units, saving CMC NT$ 2,000,000 over two years. 

A.  conserved

B.  sustained

C.  expended  

　

6. Catering to individualized consumer tastes requires the automobile industry to effectively manage manufacturing procedures to simultaneously optimize factory floor use and satisfy consumer demand.

A.  repulsing

B.  coddling  

C.  impeding

　

7. Catering to individualized consumer tastes requires the automobile industry to effectively manage manufacturing procedures to simultaneously optimize factory floor use and satisfy consumer demand.  

A.  maximize

B.  attenuate

C.   curtail

　

8. The PCVC system helps to achieve this by arranging the simultaneous production of various models, striving to fill factory orders, and making on-line queries regarding how to increase upper and lower supply chain efficiency. 

A. facilitating

B.  hindering

C.  inhibiting

　

9. Such technological innovations will ultimately improve the global competitiveness of the Taiwanese automotive sector.  

A.  originally

B.  initially

C.  eventually  

　

10. Technological developments in this sector focus mainly on flexibility in production scheme, online production and further integration of information technologies and, ultimately, result in a fully automated and optimally managed factory floor.

A.  rigidity

B.  pliability  

C.  austerity

　

　

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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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