Question

　　Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts, and other vocations, like farming and fishery, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fiber of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom, and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or papers, and everybody is soon talking about it--as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

(1)Special words used in technical discussion ______.

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A．never last long

B．should be confined to scientific fields

C．may become part of common speech

D．are considered artificial language speech

(2)In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical terms in the terminology of ______.

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A．fishery

B．farming

C．government

D．sports

(3)The writer of the article was undoubtedly ______.

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A．a linguist

B．an attorney

C．a scientist

D．an essayist

(4)The author's main purpose in the passage is to ______.

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A．describe a phenomenon

B．propose a solution

C．be entertaining

D．argue a belief

Answer 1

答案：C;C;A;A
解析：

(1)细节理解题。文章最后一句话说明人们在日常生活中总会使用一些新的专有词汇使之成为日常用语。 (2)推理判断题。文中 And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. 说明，自然科学、政治学及机械学领域的术语增加最快。因此只有C项符合这一说法。 (3)根据文章所谈论的主题，即不同行业的专用术语的问题，显然作者是一位语言学家，而不是律师、科学家或随笔作家。 (4)主旨大意题。根据文章内容，作者在文中介绍了各种不同行业的专用词汇的特点，以及这些术语的发展和使用情况，显然是陈述性质的，是向读者描述某种现象，而不是为了提供解决问题的方案，因为根本没有提出任何问题，更不是为了娱乐和争辩。