閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

Exercise 408
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.    Although Alice has had several practicum internships at different hospitals during university, her current work is in a totally different area from the work she has been involved in previously.
  A. apprenticeship
  B.  employment
  C.   over time
   
2. Although Alice has had several practicum internships at different hospitals during university, her current work is in a totally different area from the work she has been involved in previously.
  A. partially
  B. absolutely
  C. entirely
     
3.  Although initially unfamiliar with the medical instrumentation, work environment and work flow, she learned quickly, and her colleagues helped her to become more proficient.
  A.  in the end
  B. at the outset
  C. on the outside
     
4.  Although initially unfamiliar with the medical instrumentation, work environment and work flow, she learned quickly, and her colleagues helped her to become more proficient.
  A. way of doing things socially
  B. way of doing things in practice
  C. way of doing things at work
     
5.  Although initially unfamiliar with the medical instrumentation, work environment and work flow, she learned quickly, and her colleagues helped her to become more proficient.
  A. collaborators
  B. rivals
  C. competitors
     
6.  Although initially unfamiliar with the medical instrumentation, work environment and work flow, she learned quickly, and her colleagues helped her to become more proficient.
  A. amateurish
  B. novice
  C.  expert
     
7. Interpersonal skills are necessary in developing a collaborative environment among the staff and increasing work efficiency.
  A. defensive
  B.  communicative
  C.  offensive
     
8. Interpersonal skills are necessary in developing a collaborative environment among the staff and increasing work efficiency.
  A.  synergetic
  B. lone
  C. autonomous
     
9. A strong sense of comradeship enables each individual to perform his or her task.
  A.  flushed
  B.  sensitivity
  C.  glowing
     
10. A strong sense of comradeship enables each individual to perform his or her task.
  A. strong-spirited
  B.  individualism
  C. companionship
     
11. Alice's work has also exposed her daily to patients from all walks of life; she empathizes with those in pain and is concerned with their welfare, as well as that of their family and dependants.
  A. enlightened
  B.  barricaded
  C. barricaded
     
12. Alice's work has also exposed her daily to patients from all walks of life; she empathizes with those in pain and is concerned with their welfare, as well as that of their family and dependants.
  A. people from different countries
 

B.

 people from different backgrounds
  C. people from different neighborhoods
     
13. Alice's work has also exposed her daily to patients from all walks of life; she empathizes with those in pain and is concerned with their welfare, as well as that of their family and dependants.
  A. dodges
 

B.

 avoids
  C. sympathizes
     
14. Alice's work has also exposed her daily to patients from all walks of life; she empathizes with those in pain and is concerned with their welfare, as well as that of their family and dependants.
  A. basic needs
 

B.

 investments
  C. financial portfolios
     
15. She has been able to use this empathy in examining them thoroughly and accurately diagnosing disease symptoms.
  A. disdain
 

B.

 compassion
  C. despise
     
16. She has been able to use this empathy in examining them thoroughly and accurately diagnosing disease symptoms.
  A. identifying
 

B.

 concealing
  C. elaborating on
     
17. As a graduate school student, Alice acquired the theoretical knowledge she needed to combine with her clinical experience to enable her to enhance her research capabilities more effectively to help her patients.
  A. speculative
 

B.

 factual
  C. actual
     
18. As a graduate school student, Alice acquired the theoretical knowledge she needed to combine with her clinical experience to enable her to enhance her research capabilities more effectively to help her patients.
  A. decline
 

B.

 worsen
  C. upgrade
     
19. She considers her work to be almost a calling, making her even more determined to serve sick people as an important part of her career.
  A. tribulation
 

B.

 mission
  C. load
     

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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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