Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even
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New Zealand has quite free rules about
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children, names beginning with a
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are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman
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.
In many countries around the world,
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names for children are becoming more popular. In Britain, you can call a child almost
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you like. The only restrictions on parents
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to offensive(冒犯的) words such as swear words.
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parents choose names which come from
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culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf
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the character in the Lord of the Rings(指环王) novels and films.
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, names related to sport are fairly common –
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1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal(阿森纳) after the football team. Other parents like to
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names, or combine names to make their own
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names, a method demonstrated (证实的) by Jordan, the British model,
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recently invented the name Tiaamii for her daughter by
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names Thea and Amy (the two grandmothers).
Some names which were previously
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as old-fashioned have
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popular again, but the most popular names are not the strange
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. The top names are fairly
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, for example, Jack, Charlie and Thomas for boys and Grace, Ruby and Jessica for girls.
| 小题22: | | A．calling | B．raising | C．naming | D．educating |
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| 小题23: | | A．number | B．mark | C．letter | D．sign |
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| 小题24: | | A．however | B．instead | C．thus | D．too |
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| 小题25: | | A．unusual | B．outstanding | C．common | D．famous |
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| 小题26: | | A．everything | B．something | C．nothing | D．anything |
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| 小题27: | | A．relate | B．to relate | C．relating | D．related |
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| 小题28: | | A．Many of | B．Some | C．A great many of | D．Much |
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| 小题29: | | A．current | B．mysterious | C．popular | D．present |
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| 小题31: | | A．Equally | B．Whereas | C．Indeed | D．However |
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| 小题32: | | A．in | B．since | C．after | D．till |
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| 小题33: | | A．make up | B．make for | C．make use of | D．make out |
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| 小题34: | | A．well–known | B．double | C．fantastic | D．unique |
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| 小题35: | | A．who | B．which | C．that | D．who that |
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| 小题36: | | A．changing | B．separating | C．combining | D．dividing |
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| 小题37: | | A．thought of | B．thought about | C．thought | D．thought over |
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| 小题38: | | A．formed | B．sounded | C．become | D．developed |
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| 小题39: | | A．ones | B．personalities | C．characters | D．varieties |
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| 小题40: | | A．convenient | B．traditional | C．classic | D．contemporary |
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