Answer to Question #61958 in English for musba

Question

16 Listening comprehension as it relates to information retrieval from data, figures, diagrams and tables tend to be _______ to academic purposes.
more general and advanced
more unified
more specified
more specific and directed
17 Finding meaning of words by using the technique of word ATTACK simply means _______
regularly and quickly checking the meaning of every change word you come across.
breaking a seemingly difficult word into divisible parts and finding the meaning of each component.
breaking a word into two parts and looking for the meaning of the larger part.
using a word to look for the meaning of another word.
18 Choose the alternative that gives the meaning of the indicated word: Prince has 'severed' relationship with his new band.
Renewed
Broken off
Strengthened
Tidied up