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Q1.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
The Times is not an easy paper to read. It would mean little to the two million adults
in Britain who cannot even read more popular papers. It would also be difficult to
understand for many to whom English is a second language. Yet even those who read
The Times easily and with pleasure might have difficulty with official forms, leaflets
and legal agreements. Ordinary people's lives are governed by forms and noticed
from the moment their birth is registered until the day they die. Yet many can make
no sense of the words on the bits of papers.
It is 33 years since Sir Ernest Gowers wrote a book called Plain Words to guide civil
servants in writing clear English. Sadly, officials who are writing now do not seem to
have read the book. They excuse the fact that much of what they write cannot be
understood by arguing that complicated schemes must have complicated
explanations. They also claim readers would think it an insult to their intelligence to
be addressed in simple English, They think long words and fine phrases make what
they have to say seem more important. They do not care very much if customers and clients remain ignorant. Public ignorance makes their job easier.
As a result we have forms that people who can read well cannot fill in correctly.
Important agreements are based on unreadable small print. Warning notices on
dangerous materials are printed so small that few people would understand them
before an accident, let alone after it. The legal pressure on businesses to use simpler
language has made difference, even if lawyers and counts themselves still use the
language ordinary people cannot read. Companies can now make big profits from
simplifying the language of contracts and complicated documents for fees of up to
10,000 for each job.
In Britain an organisation called The Plain English Movement was set up in Martin
Cutts and Chrissi Maher. They started by producing a newspaper in Liverpool for
adults who had difficulty in reading. Then they ran an advice center in Salford,
simplifying forms and leaflets for people claiming unemployment and sickness
benefits. The Movement has had some successes. Not least is that simplifying such
leaflets to four pages with sentences averaging onlys 10 words has saved millions of
pieces of paper a year.
1. Why is it important to simplify official language, according to the text?
(a) Because everyone needs to understand it.
(b) Because it takes too long to produce the present paper work
(c) So that Times readers can understand it.
(d) To support the Plain English Movement

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