閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

 

Exercise 633
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. As Taiwan’s highest health authority, the Department of Health (DOH) of the Executive Yuan is responsible for administering, supervising and coordinating local health agencies.  

I A. subordinate to

B. in charge of

C. inferior to

 

2. DOH contributes to maintaining the health of Taiwanese residents by promulgating health-related measures to expedite the provision of convenient and efficient medical services.

A. deteriorating

B. sustaining  

C. decaying

 

3. Promoting a healthy living space in which individuals can fully access quality healthcare services and accurate medical information enables all individuals to take increased responsibility for their well being.

A. allows  

B. prohibits  

C. restricts

 

4. Key strategies implemented to achieve the above objective include establishing a National Health Insurance Review Committee to provide guidelines for improving the National Health Insurance system, promoting organizational reengineering by establishing the Bureau of Health Promotion and Bureau of Hospital Management, advancing national health education by establishing the National Health Education Research Group, setting up a modern health care network, enhancing health care for women and the disadvantaged, strengthening emergency medical care, encouraging diversification of hospital operations and, finally, implementing an information-based, nationwide system for preventing communicable diseases.   

A. inhibiting

B. hindering

C. enhancing    

 

5. Key strategies implemented to achieve the above objective include establishing a National Health Insurance Review Committee to provide guidelines for improving the National Health Insurance system, promoting organizational reengineering by establishing the Bureau of Health Promotion and Bureau of Hospital Management, advancing national health education by establishing the National Health Education Research Group, setting up a modern health care network, enhancing health care for women and the disadvantaged, strengthening emergency medical care, encouraging diversification of hospital operations and, finally, implementing an information-based, nationwide system for preventing communicable diseases. 

A. establishing  

B.  deconstructing

C. demolishing

 

6. Key strategies implemented to achieve the above objective include establishing a National Health Insurance Review Committee to provide guidelines for improving the National Health Insurance system, promoting organizational reengineering by establishing the Bureau of Health Promotion and Bureau of Hospital Management, advancing national health education by establishing the National Health Education Research Group, setting up a modern health care network, enhancing health care for women and the disadvantaged, strengthening emergency medical care, encouraging diversification of hospital operations and, finally, implementing an information-based, nationwide system for preventing communicable diseases.
 

A. postponing

B. delaying

C. promulgating
 

7. To implement the above strategies, the Hsinchu General Hospital operates 18 outpatient services with a staff of 800, based on the concepts of quality, efficiency and family values.

A. efficacy  

B. incompetency

C. insufficiency
 

8. To achieve the objectives of promulgating governmental health care policy and offering quality medical health services to promote physical and mental well being, Hsinchu General Hospital has a bed capacity of 684, with 84 intensive care beds and 600 beds for patients with acute chronic illnesses.

A. recovery efforts

B. remedial efforts

C. maladies

 


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