5. The purpose of the writer in writing
this passage is to __________.
A. show you the need of changing your name.
B. encourage you if you want to change your name.
C. tell you how easy it is to change one's name.
D. list all the difficulties in changing one's name.
Correct answers: DBADB
要准确把握全文的主旨大意，才能作对题2和题5。
本文的中心涉及作者对更改姓名一事的看法和态度。通读短文后，你应当有个基本印象。若你再注意到以下文字，你就更有把握了：
If your name no longer seems to fit you, don't lose heart. Film stars
change their names, and with some determination, you can, too.
Don't care too much if you have to keep reminding others of your change of a
new name---keep on, and your friends and lover will accept your new name.
Good luck!
作者写本文的目的是鼓励那些想改名的人(encourage you if you want to change your name)，告诉这些人目前没有法律限制(you don't need to
make the change official. Under common law, all that is necessary is to
start using the name of your choice. / You don't have to show them any
sort of court document. You have a right to be called by whatever name
you choose.)提醒这些人克服可能遇到的困难(By this time, you've probably realized that changing your name is
more difficult than replacing your furniture of changing your hair color,
though the effect can be unusually encouraging.)
因此题2的答案是B, 题5的答案是B，题4的答案是D。
题4的选项C (that changing your name is not as easy as rearranging your room)的说法与原文有出入：原文是 rearranging your
furniture；且“没有那末容易(is not as easy as ...)”的另外说法是“跟它一样难，或比它还难，而原文的说法是“比...还难”。
本文选自2002年东城区高三英语期末试卷(2002. 1)
Passage
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The old idea that child
prodigies ( 神童 )
"burn themselves" or "overtax their brains" in the early
years, therefore, are prey to failure and ( at worst ) mental illness is just a
myth. As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright
children is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.
To find this out, 1,500 gifted persons were followed
up to their thirty-fifty year with these results:
On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as
they did as children. They were, as a group, in good health, physically
and mentally. Eighty-four percent of their group were married and seemed
content with their life.
About 70percent had graduated from colleges, though
only 30 percent had graduated with honors. A few had even flunked out ( 退学 ), but nearly half of these had
returned to graduate.
Of the men, 80 percent were in one of the professions
or in business, managers or semi-professional jobs. The women who had
remained single had offices, business, or professional occupations.
The group had published 90 books and 1,500 articles in
scientific, scholarly, and literary magazines and had collected more than 100
patents ( 专利 ).
In a material way they didn't do badly either .
Average income was considerably higher among the gifted people, especially the
men, than for the country as a whole, despite their comparative youth when last
surveyed.
In fact, far from being strange, maladjusted ( 难以适应 ) people locked in an ivory
tower, most of the gifted were turning their early promises into practical
reality.
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