Why People Use Pseudonyms
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—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, Neftali Reyes. He didn’t want his father to ___54__ he has writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man.__55__ other times the reason may appear eccentric; take the case of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa,____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__, the reason is for social, historical, political, 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--- 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!
51. A) as if B) as C) even if D) even
52. A) take B) make C) do D) have
53. A) private B) individual C) own D)personal
54. A) understand B) know C) recognize D) observe
55. A) at B) on C) in D) during
56. A) whom B) which C) who D) that
57. A) but B) although C) though D) however
58. A) popular B) common C)ordinary D) average
59. A) so B) too C) very D) much
60. A) easy B) short C) simple D) brief
61. A) aims B)ends C) goals D)purposes
62. A) market B) film C)country D) business
63. A) look B) sound C) appear D) seem
64. A) choose B) give C) change D) get
65. A) admit B) assure C) avoid D) affect
答案解析:
51 C
本句前半句提到“大多數人不會改名字”,因此可以判斷是選有讓步轉折意義的“even if”,其他的選項都沒有這個意思,尤其要注意even是副詞,不可以這樣用于句首引出從句。
52 A
本句的意思是想說“有些人,尤其是藝術家們,會更改名字”。 不過,本句沒有直接說change their names而是說采取行動,那么只能用take與action 進行搭配,其他動詞都不合適。
53 D
根據后面 such as 后所舉的例子知道,某些人改名字完全出于個人的原因,故選擇personal. private是指與公眾無關的,私隱的;individual 是與集體對立而言,個體的;而own則必須放在物主代詞的后面一起來表達屬于某人的。
54 B
本句是想說他改名字是為了不讓父親了解到他在寫詩這件事。因此選know. understand是理解的意思,recognize是認出,observe是察覺、觀察到的意思。
55 A
本句里的times是時機、場合的意思,at other times是表示“其他的情況”,還有其他的固定搭配也是用at 這個介詞,如at all times, at the best of times等等,其他介詞無此搭配。
56 C
本句是舉葡萄牙人的例子來說明某些人更改名字的理由很奇怪,后半句是想說此人用過75個不同的名字。對本句結構做出分析后,應該是非限定性定語從句對此詩人做出補充解釋,故用who. That 不能用于非限定性定語從句,which則不能表示人,只能表示物,whom是用來做賓格形式只能作賓語不能作主語。
57 D
如果注意到了此空前后的逗號的話就應該知道需要填一個副詞來表示轉折了,四個選項中只有however是副詞,所以其他的選項都不對。
58 B
前一句剛說到大家改名字有社會、歷史、政治、文化等方面的原因,通過下面幾段里所給出的例子可以知道本句是想說“下面是幾種常見的原因”, 所以選common用于指常常發生的情況,而popular是指大家都喜歡的,ordinary和average則都是指沒什么特別的。
59 B
根據后文,本句是想說某些人的名字太長,太難不好記住,是一個too…to…的結構,表達“太……而不能……”的意思。
60 A
根據上下文知道,本句是想說簡單明了的Madonna更容易記住。從本句中的plain一詞可以斷定不是想說長短,所以short和brief都不對,而simple則是與復雜相對立的,因此選用easy一詞與前句的difficult來對應,后一句話中的easier to remember也可以幫助我們選擇easy.
61 D
此題四個選項都能表示目的,但各有不同,aim是偏重于想要取得的目標;end往往表示最終目的,而且常常用于指與手段相對應的目的;goal 則更多的指個人或者某群體決心要達到的目標,通常指一般的趨勢或方向而沒有最終的具體目標;而purpose則主要是指所向往的結果,是行為、行動的緣由。
62 A
根據前一句中的marketing purposes一詞可以判斷此句是想說把名字改成在市場上更好識記的,因此選market,而不是在某個國家、某部電影或者是某筆生意里更容易辨識。
63 B
根據前半句里的doesnt sound可以判斷此處應該選用sound 來表示聽上去怎樣,其他三個選項里的詞意上不恰當。
64 A
從后面一句可以推斷此句是想藝術家有時候根據自己所欣賞的人的名字給自己取筆名或藝名。如果用give一詞的話則必須有themselves來作間接賓語,不然就不是給他們自己取名字了。也不能用change,但如果用change into的話還可以表示把名字改成別的名字,而get則是“獲得、得到的意思”,所以只能用choose來表示“選用”的意思。
65 C
本句是想說為了不讓作品得不到出版的情況而出現而取個男子的名字,因此選avoid, admit是承認的意思,assure是確認的意思,affect則是影響的意思。
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