Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 4

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Reading Comprehension (Unseen) Passage Set - 4

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :-

As a medium of literary expression, the common language is inadequate. Like the man of letters, the scientist finds it necessary to "give a purer sense to the words of the tribe". But the purity of scientific language is not the same as the purity of literary language. The aim of the scientist is to say only one thing at a time, and to say it unambiguously and with the greatest possible clarity. To achieve this, he simplifies and jargonizes. In other words, he uses the vocabulary and syntax of common speech in such a way that each phrase is susceptible to only one interpretation; and when the vocabulary and syntax of common speech are too imprecise for his purpose he invites a new technical language, or jargon specially designed to express the limited meaning with which he is professionally concerned. At its most perfectly pure form, scientific language ceases the matter of words and terms into mathematics. The literary artist purifies the language of the tribe in a radically different way. The scientist's aim, as we have seen, is to say one thing, and only one thing at a time. This, most emphatically, is not the aim of the literary artist. Human life is lived simultaneously on many levels and has many meanings. Literature is a device for reporting the multifarious facts and expressing their various significance. When the literary artist undertakes to give a pure sense to the words of his tribe, he does so with the express purpose of creating a language capable of conveying, not the single meaning of some particular science, but the multiple significance of human experience, on its most private as well as on its more public levels. 

A) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False :-

i) Common language is not a self sufficient literary medium. 

ii) Scientific language ceases words and terms into mathematics.

iii) The aim of the literary artist and that of the scientist is the same .

iv) Human life is lived at many levels with a single significance.

B) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words :- 

i) What is the aim of a scientist?

ii) What does a scientist do to achieve his aim? 

iii) How does a literary artist use language?