单选题
Indian's Names

Each Indian was supposed to keep his birth name until he was old enough to earn one for himself. But his playmates would always give him a name of their own. No matter what his parents called him, his childhood friends would use the name they had chosen. Often it was not pleasing, such as Bow Legs or Bad Boy. But sometimes a name fit so well that the youngster found it difficult to shake it off. If he could not earn a better one from a war later, he could be stuck with a name like Bow Legs for the rest of his life.
The Indian earned his real name when he was old enough for his first fight against the enemy. His life name depended on how he acted during this first battle. When he returned from the war, the whole tribe would gather and observe the ceremony in which he would be given his name by the chief. If he had done well, he would get a good name. Otherwise he might be called Crazy Wolf or Man-Afraid-of-a Horse. So an Indian's name told his record or described the kind of man he was.
A man was given many chances to improve his name, however, if in a later battle he was brave in fighting against the enemy, he was given a better name. Some of our great fighters had as many as twelve names, all good and each better than the last.
An Indian's names belonged to him for the rest of his life. No one else could use them. Even he himself could not give them away because names were assigned by the tribe, not the family. So no man could pass on his name unless the chief and the tribe asked him to do so.
Sometimes an Indian would be asked to give his name to a son who had performed a noticeable deed. I know of only three or four times when this happened. It is the rarest honor for a person--the honor of assuming his father's name.

单选题 Why names were important to an Indian?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】第2段最后一句:名字告诉我们他的记录或者表明这是一个什么样的人,因此选B。
单选题 An Indian could be given the second name by ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】birth name是出生时就取的,而且应该保留直到大了以后可以自己赢得一个名字。但是儿时的玩伴会给他一个a name of their own,因此选D。
单选题 What was the greatest honor an Indian could earn?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文章最后一句the rarest honor for a person就是承袭父亲的名字,因此选D。
单选题 If an Indian had more than ten names, it meant that ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由第3段可知印度人有很多机会改进名字,如果下一次战争中表现出色就会得到更好的名字。一些出色的斗士可能有12个名字,而且每一个都比上一个好。有10多个名字的人一定是了不起的斗士,所以选B。
单选题 Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】要求选出不对的项。文章第1句“supposed to keep his birth name”意思是不能丢掉出生时取的名字,因此C是错误项。