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.
【C16】

选项 A、made
B、coined
C、produced
D、formed

答案B

解析 空白处所填单词与terms(术语)构成动宾关系。A选项made意为“生产,制造”,一般是生产有形的事物,说术语是制造出来的不合适;B选项coined作动词意为“造字,造词”。此处“新编术语”符合句意;C选项produced意为“生产”,与A选项意思接近;D选项formed意为“形成”,后文提到“新编的这些词仅限于特殊的讨论,很少进入一般文献和会议”,说明这些词是新造的,尚未成形。所以B选项更合适。
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