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   Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even  1   New Zealand has quite free rules about   2   children, names beginning with a   3  are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman   4  .

In many countries around the world,   5   names for children are becoming more popular. In Britain, you can call a child almost   6   you like. The only restrictions on parents   7to offensive words such as swear words.

  8  parents choose names which come from   9  culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf   10   the character in the Lord of the Rings novels and films.  11  , names related to sport are fairly common –   12  1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal after the football team. Other parents like to   13  names, or combine names to make their own   14  names, a method demonstrated by Jordan, the British model,   15   recently invented the name Tiaamii for her daughter by   16  names Thea and Amy （the two grandmothers）.

Some names which were previously   17   as old – fashioned have   18   popular again, but the most popular names are not the strange   19  . The top names are fairly   20  , for example, Jack, Charlie and Thomas for boys and Grace, Ruby and Jessica for girls.

1．A．when                    B．in                        C．though                D．for

2．A．calling                   B．naming                C．raising                 D．educating

3．A．letter                     B．mark                   C．number               D．sign

4．A．however               B．too                      C．thus                    D．instead

5．A．outstanding           B．unusual               C．common             D．famous

6．A．everything             B．something            C．anything              D．nothing

7．A．to relate                B．relater                 C．relating                D．related

8．A．Many of                B．Much                  C．A great many of   D．Some

9．A．popular                 B．mysterious           C．current                D．present

10．A．for                      B．by                       C．after                   D．like

11．A．However             B．Whereas              C．Indeed                D．Equally

12．A．in                       B．after                    C．since                   D．till

13．A．make out             B．make for             C．make use of         D．make up

14．A．well – known      B．double                 C．unique                 D．fantastic

15．A．which                 B．who                    C．that                     D．who that

16．A．changing             B．combining           C．separating            D．dividing

17．A．thought               B．thought about       C．thought of           D．thought over

18．A．become               B．sounded              C．formed                D．developed

19．A．personalities         B．ones                    C．characters           D．varieties

20．A．traditional           B．convenient        C．classic            D．contemporary

【回答】

1—5 CBCDB     6—10 CBDAC      11—15 DCDCB      16—20 BCABA

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