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Exercise 317
Purpose:	Increasing reading comprehension skills /加強閱讀技巧

Listen to the following story from Writing Effective Study Plans by Ted Knoy:

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

1. Electrical engineering has fascinated Mary from an early age, and she has taken related courses since university.

A. since high school

B. since childhood

C. since university

2. Electrical engineering has fascinated Mary from an early age, and she has taken related courses since university.

A. audited

B. dropped out of

C. enrolled in

3. Having nearly completed a Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, her research focuses on discrete signal process, digital control and VLSI.

A. distracts from

B. concentrates on

C. withdraws from

4. Graduate school has taught her innovative ways of solving problems logically and independently.

A. analytical

B. diverse

C. creative

5. Graduate school has taught her innovative ways of solving problems logically and independently.

A. efficiently

B. rationally

C. economically

6. Graduate school has taught her innovative ways of solving problems logically and independently.

A. collaboratively

B. cooperatively

C. individually

7. Becoming a member of the GHI family would also allow her to apply her strong research fundamentals to this exciting industrial field of integrated circuit design.

A. an employee at GHI Corporation

B. a manager at GHI Corporation

C. an investor in GHI Corporation

8. Becoming a member of the GHI family would also allow her to apply her strong research fundamentals to this exciting industrial field of integrated circuit design.

A. developing

B. solid

C. wavering

9. Becoming a member of the GHI family would also allow her to apply her strong research fundamentals to this exciting industrial field of integrated circuit design.

A. foundation

B. preference

C. confrontation

10. Becoming a member of the GHI family would also allow her to apply her strong research fundamentals to this exciting industrial field of integrated circuit design.

A. lackluster

B. vibrant

C. dull

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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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