【TOEICコース大解剖！2014 Spring Intensive Course】

こんにちは、スタッフです

英語のレベルを計るものさしとしてに広く普及しているTOEIC試験は、

入社や昇進の条件として取得スコアを課す企業もあり、

目的別TOEICコースやプレミアムコースでも

熱心に学習に取り組む生徒さまがたくさんいらっしゃいます

春の短期集中コースでは、

「Tips for TOEIC」または、

「Vocabularies needed for TOEIC」をご選択いただき、

鍵となる文法や質問のテーマを読み解いたり

頻出の単語を強化することで、

試験でのスコアアップを目指していただけます

本日は「Vocabularies needed for TOEIC」の

テキストの一部を少しだけのぞいてみましょう

＜Confusing words＞

The sentences below are all missing one word. Four possible answers follow each sentence.Choose the best answer in each case. Note that each set of answers includes some words that are often confused with one another, either because: (a) they are related to the same topic, but have a different meaning; (b) they look similar but have a different meaning; (c)they are English words which have a similar-looking word in another language but which have a different meaning (we call these words false friends).

1. Try to make your report as _____ as possible: only give us the facts, and not your opinions.
　(a) subjective (b) objectionable (c) subjected (d) objective
2. Environmental inspectors regularly _____ our kitchens and other food preparation areas to make sure they conform to regulations.　(a) inspect (b) control (c) study (d) analyze
3. _____ workers are often rewarded with higher salaries and other benefits.
　(a) conscious (b) conscientious (c) conscience (d) consciousness
4. Airlines are already increasing their prices on the _____ that fuel prices are going to rise.
(a) consumption (b) destruction (c) assumption (d) presumption
5. The fire caused a lot of _____ to the building and factory machinery.
　(a) damage (b) harm (c) injury (d) wound
6. Government subsidies helped to _____ many companies being forced to close down.
　(a) prevent (b) preventive (c) avoidance (d) avoid
7. The manager made it clear that he intended to _____ down some new rules to enforce workplace discipline.
　(a) lying (b) lie (c) laying (d) lay

似たような意味だったり、活用形が違ったり、品詞が違ったり。

この中のどれかなのは分かるけれど、

紛らわしい単語ってありますよね