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As we all know, Verbal Aptitude is an
important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC
Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL
Examination, MBA Entrance Examination, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc.
In order to help you practise and improve your verbal ability, we provide you
this English Quiz.
Given below are a few questions from
SSC examinations held in the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
Directions
(Q.Nos. 1- 5) You have one brief passage with 5 questions following it.
Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of
the four alternatives.
Passage
Every
profession or trade, every art and every science has its technical vocabulary,
the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no
names in ordinary English and partly to secure greater exactness in
nomenclature. Such special dialects or jargons are necessary in technical discussion
of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular
science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides,
they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to
describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in
every large dictionary, yet, as a whole they are rather on the outskirts of the
English language than actually within its borders.
Different
occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies.
In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like farming and fishing that
have occupied great times, the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man
now uses these dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become
familiar to cultivated persons.
1. It is
true that
(a) various professions and
occupations often interchange words
(b) there is always a non-technical
word that may be substituted for the technical word
(c) the average man often uses in his
own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him
(d) everyone is interested in
scientific findings.
2. In recent
years, there has been a marked increase in the number of technical term in the
nomenclature of
(a) farming (b) fishing (c) sports (d) government
3. Special
words used in technical discussion
(a) may become part of common speech
(b) never last long
(c) should resemble mathematical
formula
(d) should be confined to scientific
fields
4. The
writer of this article is a
(a) scientist (b) politician (c) linguist (d) businessman
5. This
passage is primarily concerned with
(a) various occupations and
professions
(b) technical terminology
(c) scientific undertakings
(d) a new language
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Answers:
1(c)
2(d) 3(a)
4(c) 5(b)