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 51 they feel unhappy about them. However, some people do 52 this course of action—particularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? sometimes it’s for purely __53__ reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neftali Reyes. He didn’t want his father to ___54__ he has writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man.__55__ other times the reason may appear eccentric; take the case of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa,____56_ 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,__57__, the reason is for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of the most __58__:

　　The person’s real name is just ___59__ long and difficult to remember. Let’s be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as ___60_ 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.

　　Sometimes names are changed for marketing___61_. For example , if a name sounds too “foreign”, it may be changed to something that is more recognizable in a ___62_. So in the film world, Ramon Estevez adopted the name Martin Sheen. Or maybe the artist’s real name doesn’t sound very attractive--- Chad Everett does__63_ a lot better than Raymond Cramton.

　　Artists sometimes___64__ the name of someone they admire. Robert Zimmerman changed his name to Boo Dylan because of his admiration for the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.

　　Another reason may be practicality: in the past, women found it very difficult to get published. To

　　___65_ this situation they sometimes gave themselves men’s names, so the English author Mary Ann Evans became George Eliot, and she did get her books published!

　　51. A) as if B) as C) even if D) even

　　52. A) take B) make C) do D) have

　　53. A) private B) individual C) own D)personal

　　54. A) understand B) know C) recognize D) observe

　　55. A) at B) on C) in D) during

　　56. A) whom B) which C) who D) that

　　57. A) but B) although C) though D) however

　　58. A) popular B) common C)ordinary D) average

　　59. A) so B) too C) very D) much

　　60. A) easy B) short C) simple D) brief

　　61. A) aims B)ends C) goals D)purposes

　　62. A) market B) film C)country D) business

　　63. A) look B) sound C) appear D) seem

　　64. A) choose B) give C) change D) get

　　65. A) admit B) assure C) avoid D) affect

　　参考答案：

　　51　C　　52　A　　53　D　　54　B　　55　A

　　56　C　　57　D　　58　B　　59　B　　60　A

　　61　D　　62　A　　63　B　　64　A　　65　C