Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.
Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of 1 is partly to 2 things or processes with no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in terminology. 3 , they save time, for it is much more 4 to name a process than describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very 5 included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather 6 the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.
Different occupations, however, differ 7 in their special vocabularies. It 8 largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have 9 themselves into the very fibre of our language. 10 , though highly technical in many details, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally 11 than most other technical terms. 12 , every vocation still possesses a large 13 of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even 14 educated people. And the proportion has been much 15 in the last fifty years. Most of the newly 16 terms are 17 to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once 18 a close federation. What is called "popular science" makes everybody 19 with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, 20 made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it. Thus, our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.