閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

Exercise 402
Purpose: Increasing reading comprehension skills /加強閱讀技巧
Writing Effective Career Statements /有效撰寫英文職涯經歷


Pick the work or expression whose meaning is closest to the meaning of the underlined word or expression in the following passages.

 

1.    Larry's strong commitment to the Business Management field has involved acquiring knowledge and skills through graduate school training.
  A. affliction
  B.  tribulation
  C.   obligation
   
2. Larry's strong commitment to the Business Management field has involved acquiring knowledge and skills through graduate school training.
  A. securing
  B. discarding
  C. disposing of
     
3.  This commitment has not only made him competent academically, but also allowed him to thrive in the workplace.
  A.  incapable
  B. skillful
  C. unqualified
     
4.  This commitment has not only made him competent academically, but also allowed him to thrive in the workplace.
  A. socially
  B. athletically
  C. scholastically
     
5.  This commitment has not only made him competent academically, but also allowed him to thrive in the workplace.
  A. excel
  B. flop
  C. sink
     
6.  During undergraduate training, while learning how to adopt different perspectives when solving a particular problem, he acquired several statistical and analytical skills.
  A. toil
  B. travail
  C.  pedagogy
     
7. During undergraduate training, while learning how to adopt different perspectives when solving a particular problem, he acquired several statistical and analytical skills.
  A. dump
  B.  utilize
  C.  throw out
     
8. During undergraduate training, while learning how to adopt different perspectives when solving a particular problem, he acquired several statistical and analytical skills.
  A.  viewpoints
  B. goals
  C. targets
     
9. During undergraduate training, while learning how to adopt different perspectives when solving a particular problem, he acquired several statistical and analytical skills.
  A.  rational
  B.  irrational
  C.  illogical
     
10. Doing so involved learning how to analyze problems, identify potential solutions, and implement those solutions according to concepts taught in the classroom.
  A. dissipating
  B.  mastering
  C. squandering
     
11. Doing so involved learning how to analyze problems, identify potential solutions, and implement those solutions according to concepts taught in the classroom.
  A. inspect
  B.  neglect
  C. hint
     
12. Doing so involved learning how to analyze problems, identify potential solutions, and implement those solutions according to concepts taught in the classroom.
  A. disregard
 

B.

 exploit
  C. slight
     
13. Larry's excellence in these areas proved especially effective in devising marketing strategies for research purposes.
  A. substandard
 

B.

 inferiority
  C. superiority
     
14. Larry's excellence in these areas proved especially effective in devising marketing strategies for research purposes.
  A. inefficient
 

B.

 productive
  C. inoperable
     
15. Larry's excellence in these areas proved especially effective in devising marketing strategies for research purposes.
  A. investing
 

B.

 inventing
  C. eradicating
     
16. When initially lacking expertise in a particular topic at the outset, he strives to absorb quickly new information and adapt to new situations.
  A. first
 

B.

 finally
  C. last
     
17. When initially lacking expertise in a particular topic at the outset, he strives to absorb quickly new information and adapt to new situations.
  A. abundance of
 

B.

 deficient of
  C. surplus of
     
18. When initially lacking expertise in a particular topic at the outset, he strives to absorb quickly new information and adapt to new situations.
  A. in the beginning
 

B.

 in the middle
  C. at the end
     
19. When initially lacking expertise in a particular topic at the outset, he strives to absorb quickly new information and adapt to new situations.
  A. renounce
 

B.

 waive
  C. engross
     

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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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