閱讀技巧 (Reading Comprehension)

Exercise 412
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.    Teresa participated in a project to assess the quality of a hospital's medical services. This experience enhanced her academic knowledge and significantly improved her analytical skills and data collection capabilities.
  A. curtailed
   B. abstained from
    C. engaged in
   
2. Teresa participated in a project to assess the quality of a hospital's medical services. This experience enhanced her academic knowledge and significantly improved her analytical skills and data collection capabilities.
  A. overlook
  B. appraise
  C. afterthought
     
3.  Teresa participated in a project to assess the quality of a hospital's medical services. This experience enhanced her academic knowledge and significantly improved her analytical skills and data collection capabilities.
   A. agrarian
  B. agricultural
  C. scholastic
     
4.  Teresa participated in a project to assess the quality of a hospital's medical services. This experience enhanced her academic knowledge and significantly improved her analytical skills and data collection capabilities.
  A. emancipation
  B. accumulation
  C. liberation
     
5.  Her hands-on experience in a hospital administrative department provided her with numerous opportunities to corroborate what she had learned from textbooks and. then. to apply that knowledge to solving independently the problems at hand.
  A. hypothetical
  B. theoretical
  C. practical
     
6.  Her hands-on experience in a hospital administrative department provided her with numerous opportunities to corroborate what she had learned from textbooks and. then. to apply that knowledge to solving independently the problems at hand.
  A. subservient
  B. managerial
  C.  subordinate
     
7. Her hands-on experience in a hospital administrative department provided her with numerous opportunities to corroborate what she had learned from textbooks and. then, to apply that knowledge to solving independently the problems at hand.
  A. confirm
  B.  deny
  C.  cancel
     
8. Her hands-on experience in a hospital administrative department provided her with numerous opportunities to corroborate what she had learned from textbooks and. then, to apply that knowledge to solving independently the problems at hand.
  A.  expenses
  B. curricula
  C. tuition
     
9. Her hands-on experience in a hospital administrative department provided her with numerous opportunities to corroborate what she had learned from textbooks and. then, to apply that knowledge to solving independently the problems at hand.
  A.  repeating problems
  B.  recurrent problems
  C.  current problems
     
10. The hospital's practical training definitely strengthened Teresa’s research skills in areas where she were previously lacking, including problems analysis, data collection, data evaluation and collaboration within a research group.
  A. functional
  B.  conjectural
  C. abstract
     
11. The hospital's practical training definitely strengthened Teresa’s research skills in areas where she were previously lacking, including problems analysis, data collection, data evaluation and collaboration within a research group.
  A. languish
  B.  fortified
  C. degenerate
     
12. By requiring her to meet many responsibilities, this project greatly matured her as an individual.
  A. fully relinquished
 

B.

 fully relegated
  C. fully developed
     
13. These skills will now prove valuable in any future research project in which she is involved, hopefully at DEF Corporation.
  A. valueless
 

B.

 precious
  C. ineffectual
     

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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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