閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

　

Exercise 519
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.  Thank you for agreeing to serve as an invited speaker at the upcoming marketing seminar to be held at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology on March 9, 2005.

I A.  dissenting

B.  consenting

C.  deviating  

　

2.  Thank you for agreeing to serve as an invited speaker at the upcoming marketing seminar to be held at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology on March 9, 2005.

A.  discontinued

B.  approaching

C.   belated

　

3.  The seminar will concentrate on (a) effective management strategies to achieve marketing goals and (b) advanced product development strategies and the product life cycle.

A.  focus

B.  divert

C.   deflect

　

4.  A brief outline of the seminar is as follows.

A.   obstruction

B.   impediment

C.   profile

　

5.  The organizing committee will provide a roundtrip airfare (business class), hotel accommodation during your stay and a speech honorarium for each lecture.

A.  payment for airfare

B.  payment for lecture

C.   payment for insurance

　

6.  Let me know if you have any questions regarding the above itinerary.

A.  hypothesis

B.   speculation

C.  agenda

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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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