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  3. Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of【C1】______is partly to【C2】_

Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of【C1】______is partly to【C2】_

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问题     Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of【C1】______is partly to【C2】______things or processes with no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in terminology.【C3】______, they save time, for it is much more【C4】______to name a process than describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very【C5】______included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather【C6】______the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.
    Different occupations, however, differ【C7】______in their special vocabularies. It【C8】______largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have【C9】______themselves into the very fibre of our language.【C10】______, though highly technical in many details, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally【C11】______than most other technical terms.【C12】______, every vocation still possesses a large【C13】______of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even【C14】______educated people. And the proportion has been much【C15】______in the last fifty years. Most of the newly【C16】______terms are【C17】______to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once【C18】______a close federation. What is called "popular science" makes everybody【C19】______with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment,【C20】______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.
【C15】
选项 A、decreased
B、diminished
C、increasing
D、increased
答案D
解析 本句中proportion(比例)是指不为人们所知的词汇的比例。本句说的是这个比例在过去的50年发生的变化，A选项decreased意为“减少”，显然不合题意与常识；B选项diminished意为“减少，变小”，也不正确；C选项increasing意为“增加，提高”，但-ing形式不合句子结构；D选项increased为正确答案。
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