Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose thebestanswer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
My worries were increasing. The boy at the shop was becoming more clamorous. My sales were poor, as the railways were admitting more pedlars on the platforms. My cash receipts were going down and my credit sales alone flourished. The wholesale merchants who supplied me with goods stopped credit to me. The boy’s method of accountkeeping was so chaotic that I did not know whether I was moving forward or backward. He produced cash from the counter in a haphazard manner, and there were immense gaps on the shelves all over the shop. The complaint by the public was that nothing one wanted was ever available. Suddenly the railways gave me notice to quit. I pleaded with the old stationmaster and porter, but they could do nothing; the order had come from high up. The shop was given to a new contractor. I could not contemplate the prospect of being cut off from the railways. I grew desperate and angry. I shed tears at seeing a new man in the place where I and my father had sat. I slapped the boy on the cheek and he cried, and his father, the porter, came down on me and said, ‘this is what he gets for helping you! I’d always told the boy – He was not your paid servant, anyway.’
MEANING OF WORDS/PHRASES
(1) clamorous (Adj.) : noisy
(2) pedlars (N.) : someone who travels about selling his wares (on the streets/at carnivals)
(3) chaotic (Adj.) : in a state of complete confusion and lack of order
(4) contemplate (V.) : think about/of
(5) cut off (Phr. V.) ; to be separate from others

Direction: 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 numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabulary. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become familiar to cultivated persons.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
(1) designate (V.) : give a specified status/name to
(2) nomenclature (N.) : a system of naming things (science)
(3) dialects (N.) : the form of a language that is spoken in one area with grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language
(4) jargons (N.) : words/expressions that are used by a particular profession/group of people, and are difficult for others to under stand
(5) precision (N.) : the quality of being exact, accurate and careful
(6) cultivated (Adj.) : having a high level of education and showing good manners