单选题 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 1 they feel unhappy about them. However, some people do 2 this course of action—particularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? Sometimes it"s for purely 3 reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neflali Reyes. He didn"t want his father to 4 he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man. 5 other times the reason may appear strange; take the case of the Portuguese poet Femando Pessoa, 6 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, 7 , people change their names, for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of the most 8 .
The person"s real name is just 9 long and difficult to remember. Let"s be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as 10 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.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查逻辑关系。句意：大多数人不会改名字，______他们对自己的名字不满意。由此可以判断前后分句为让步转折关系，所以答案为“even if”(即便，即使)，其他的选项都没有转折意思，尤其要注意even是副词，不可以这样用于句首引出从句。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查词汇。know意为“知道，了解”，understand意为“理解”，recognize意为“认出”，observe意为“察觉，观察”，分别代入后选项B比较符合语境。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查定语从句。对本句结构做出分析后，应该是非限定性定语从句对此诗人做出补充解释，故用who。that不能用于非限定性定语从句，which则不能表示人，只能表示物，whom用来做宾格形式，只能做宾语不能做主语。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查逻辑关系。如果注意到了此空前后都有逗号的话就应该知道需要填一个副词来表示转折了，四个选项中只有however放在句子中间时前后要加逗号。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查词汇。scientific意为“科学的”，cominon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。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查词汇。根据上下文知道，本句是想说简单明了的名字更容易记住。因此选用easy一词，并与前句的difficult来对应，后一句话中的easier to remember也可以帮助我们选择easy。