单选题
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 fibre 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 conversation. Yet no
profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer,
the physician, the man of science, the divine, associated freely with his
fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way.
Furthermore, what is called "popular science" makes everybody acquainted with
modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a
remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, 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.
单选题
Special words used in technical discussion______
A. never last long
B. are considered artificial language speech
C. should be confined to scientific fields
D. may become part of common speech
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】细节题。从文中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．一句我们可知，技术讨论中的专门词汇已经被很多受过良好教育的人们所熟悉，并且成为了人们日常所用的一部分。所以答案为D。
单选题
It is true that______
A. an educated person would be expected to know most technical terms
B. everyone is interested in scientific findings
C. the average man often uses in his own vocabulary what was once technical
language not meant for him
D. various professions and occupations often interchange their dialects and
jargons
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】推理题。从Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign，even to educated speech．一句可知A错误。B项说人人都对科学发现感兴趣，显然有违常理，故排除。从…does not meet them in a merely professional way．可知D项的说法有误。所以本题答案为C。
单选题
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of
technical terms in the terminology of______.
A. farming
B. sports
C. government
D. fishery
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】细节题。从文中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．一句我们可知，C项中的government属于political science的范畴，所以C为答案。