大學英語四級模擬試卷第10組（閲讀1）

Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
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 conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild （行會）. 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.

21.技術討論中使用的特殊詞語____。
A)永遠不會長久
B)應該被限制在科學領域
C)可能成爲普通言語的一部分
D)被認爲是人工語言言語
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22.的確如此。每個人都對科學發現感興趣普通人經常在自己的詞滙中使用那些曾經不是他專用的專業術語一個受過教育的人應該知道大多數專業術語各種職業經常交換他們的方言和術語

。近年來，術語中的技術術語數量明顯增加。
A)漁業B)辳業C)政府D)躰育

24.這篇文章的作者無疑是____。A)語言學家B)律師C)科學家D)散文家

25.The author’s main purpose in the passage is to____
A) describe a phenomenon
B) propose a solution
C) be entertaining 
D) argue a belief 
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