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共用题干 Why People Use Pseudonyms（假名字）?You

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问题 共用题干Why People Use Pseudonyms（假名字）?

You can't choose the name you are given at birth,but in many countries you can change it legally when
you reach adulthood.Of course,most people never change their names___________(51)they feel unhappy
about them.However some people do____________(52)this course of action一particularly artists!What
makes an artist want to change their name?Sometimes it's for purely_____________(53)reasons,such as the
Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile,Neftaif Reyes.He didn't want his father to_____________(54)he was
writing poetry,so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man._______________(55)other
times the reason may Portuguese poet Femando Pessca,appear strange;take the case of the______________(56)
wrote under 75 different names.The reason? "When I use a different name,I always write in a different
way,"he explained.In most cases,____________(57),people change their names for social,historical,politi-
cal,or cultural reasons.Here are some of the most ______________(58),
The person's real name is just_____________(59)long and difficult to remember. Let's be honest,Madonna
Louise Ciccone is not as._______________(60)to remember as just plain"Madonna".And short names are much
easier to remember. William Bradley became Brad Pitt and Edson Arantes do Nascimento became Pele.
Sometimes names are changed for marketing______(61).For example,if a name sounds too
"foreign",it may be changed to something that is more recognizable in a___________(62).So in the film
world,Ramon Estevez adopted the name Martin Sheen.Or maybe the artist's real name doesn't sound very
attractive一Chad Everett does____________(63)a lot better than Raymond Cramton.
Artists sometimes______________(64)the name of someone they admire.Robert Zimmerman changed his
name to Boo Dylan because of his admiration for the Welsh poet,Dylan Thomas.
Another reason may be practicality:in the past,women found it very difficult to get published.To
_______________(65)this situation,they sometimes gave themselves men's names,so the English author Mary
Ann Evans became George Eliot,and she did get her books published!_________（65）A:admitB:avoidC:assureD:affect
选项 _________（65）
A:admit
B:avoid
C:assure
D:affect
答案 B
解析 even if是连词，意为“即使”，此处表示“即使他们因自己的名字而感到不高兴，他们一 般也不会改名字的”。even是副词，语法上在此讲不通。
take action是固定搭配，意为“采取行动”。
由下面Chil。的例子可知，有些人改名字是由于个人的（personal)原因。
此处表示：他不想让他爸爸知道他在写诗。
at other times意为“在其他的一些时候”。
wrote前缺少表示人的主语。故选B。
后面又讲到了人们换名字的另外一些原因，故此空应填表示转折意义的however。
由下面的例子可知，此处表示：最常见的情况（the most common)。
改名字是因为名字太长不好记。故选C。
由前面的difficult to remember可知此处应是not as easy to remember。
此处表示有些人改名字是因为市场目的。故选A。
由61空前的marketing可知此处应填market。
此处表示：名字好听一些，故选D。
此处表示：艺术家选择他们所崇拜人的名字。故选C。
前面讲有的名字不利于作者出版书，故为了避免这种情况，他们就改名字，故选B。
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