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 c

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问题     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【C1】______they feel unhappy about them. However, some people do【C2】______this course of action—particularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? Sometimes it’s for purely【C3】______reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neflali Reyes. He didn’t want his father to【C4】______he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man. 【C5】______. Other times the reason may appear strange; take the case of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, 【C6】______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, 【C7】______, people change their names, for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of the most【C8】______.
    The person’s real name is just【C9】______long and difficult to remember. Let’s be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as【C10】______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.
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选项 A、scientific
B、common
C、technical
D、average

答案B

解析 本题是考查词汇。scientific意为“科学的”,common意为“常见的,普遍的,共同的”,technical意为“技术的”,average意为“平均的,普通的”,四个选项分别带入后,选项B比较符合语境。
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