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Unit 8 1. After a close physical examination, the doctor finally ____ that the man was mad. [A] certified [B] secured [C] declared [D] confined 2. This oil is _
chnical vocabulary. Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of th
eir 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.
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. The writer of the article was, no doubt ____.
A. a linguist
B. an essayist
C. a scientist
D. an attorney
15. The author''s main purpose in the passage is to ____.
A. describe a phenomenon
B. be entertaining
C. argue a belief
D. propose a solution
Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:
In the days immediately following hurricane Andrew''s deadly visit to South Florida, Allstate Insurance hastily dispatched more than 2,000 extra claim adjusters to the devastated area to assist the 200 stationed there. Many of the reserves arrived in convoys of motor homes. Others flew in from as far away as Alaska and California. Since the storm had knocked out telephone lines, Allstate rushed to set up its own communications system. Allatate expects to pay out 1.2 billion to cover more than 121,000 damage claims as a result of Andrew.
All told, U.S. property and casualty insurers have been hit with more than 8 billion in Andrew-related claims, making the hurricane the most costly single calamity to strike the industry since the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 (cost: 6 billion, after inflation). With claims continuing to pour in, Andrew threatens to take a painful toll on the already battered property-casualty insurance industry and its 100 million policy-holders. The final bill, analysts predic
t, is likely to top 10 billion. While most well-capitalized insurers are expected to weather the storm, less anchored firms are in danger of being blown away, leaving U.S. consumers stuck with the tab. Says Sean Mooney, senior researcher at the Insurance Information Institute: ""It will take years before the industry digs itself out from the wreckage left by Andrew. Some [companies] will be buried by it.""
Hurricane Andrew is the latest in a string of mishaps to plague the American insurance industry this year. In April an overflowing Chicago River flooded the city''s downtown district, costing insurers 300 million in claims. A month later, Los Angeles was rocked by the worst civilian riot in the U.S. since the Civil War. The insurance toll: 1 billion. Then came a series of major hailstorms in Texas, Florida an Kansas. They cost insurers a combined 700 million. And two weeks after Andrew, another lethal hurricane, Iniki, smashed into Hawaii, causing 1.4 billion in damages. In all, property and casualty insurers have paid out a record 13 billion in claims so far this year, far surpassing the previous high of 7.6 billion in 1989, the year of Hurricane Hugo and California''s Bay Area earthquake. Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.
16. According to the passage, ""Allstate Insurance"" most likely refers to ____.
A. one of the property and casualty insurers in the U.S.
B. the only insurance company responsible for the damage claims by Andrew
C. the insurance industry as a whole
D. the biggest insurance company in the U.S.
17. As is stated in the second paragraph, the result of Hurricane Andrew is likely to ____.
A. lead to inflation throughout the U.S.
B. make the largest insurers suffer the most
C. put the industry in Sough Florida out of action
D. cause insurers with insufficient funds to go ba
nkrupt
18. Using context clues, we may infer that ""stuck with the tab"" most probably means ____.
A. ""caught in the hurricane""
B. ""exposed to natural disasters""
C. ""trapped in financial difficulties""
D. ""extremely vulnerable to further damages""
19. The end of the passage implies that, to compensate for their huge loss, the insurers will ____.
A. resort to a very big increase in insurance premiums
B. ask for subsidies from the federal government
C. reduce their insurance coverage thereafter
D. require a higher interest rate from the bank
20. The main purpose of the passage is to ____.
A. show the severe damages and heavy losses caused by Hurricane Andrew
B. suggest that U.S. insurers are virtually unable to cover the damage claims any more
C. tell about the difficult situation faced by the insurers throughout the U.S.
D. prove that disasters tend to cause ever worsening devastation as time goes on
Part II Vocabulary and Structures
21. For Soviets, clothing is the ____ of greatest complaint, housing follows, and food is last.
A. source
B. problem
C. cause
D. reason
22. As a student of Chinese literature, she enjoys giving ____ of poems by her favourite poets.
A. recreations
B. recitations
C. repetitions
D. rehearsals
23. Professor Allington asks his students to read the newspapers to keep ____ of current events.
A. watch
B. observation
C. track
D. information
24. More waste materials have to be ____ of, which cause pollution of the land, sea and air.
A. detached
B. deserted
C. dismissed
D. disposed
25. Fred was ____ in the alley last night, and all his money was taken away.
A. held back
B. held up
C. held off
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