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In the following passage, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE

Every profession of trade, every art and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a amthematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly include din every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on teh outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like farming and fishing that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabuulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabularly. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become familiar to cultivated persons.

Question : 1

Special words used in technical discussion

a) may become part of common speech

b) never last long

c) should resemble mathematical formula

d) should be confined to scientific fields

Answer: (c)

Question : 2

The writer of this article is

a) a scientist

b) a politician

c) a linguist

d) a businessman

Answer: (c)

Question : 3

This passage is primarily concerned with 

a) various occupations and professions

b) technical terminology

c) scientific undertakings

d) a new language

Answer: (b)

Question : 4

It is true that

a) various professions and occupations often interchange words

b) there is always a non-technical word that may be substituted for the technical word

c) the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not emant for him

d) everyone is interested in scientific findings 

Answer: (c)

The average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him

Question : 5

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the nomenclature of

a) Farming

b) Fishing

c) Sports

d) Government

Answer: (d)

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