完形填空重点 第五篇 Why People Use Pseudonyms You cant 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 even if they feel unhappy about them. However, some people do take this course of actionparticularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? Sometimes its for purely personal reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neflali Reyes. He didnt want his father to know he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man.At other times the reason may appear eccentric; take the case of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, who 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，however ,the reason is for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of most common :The persons real name is just too long and difficult to remember. Lets be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as easy 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 PeleSometimes names are changed for marketing purposesFor example，if a name sounds too foreign, it may be changed to something that is more recognizable in a market . So in the film world, Ramon Estsvez adopted the name Martin Sheen. Or maybe the artists doesnt sound very attractive - Chad Everett does sound a lot better than Raymond Cramto.Artists sometimes choose 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 publishedTo avoid this situation theys situation they sometimes gave themselves mens names, so the English author Mary Ann Evans became George Eliot, and she did get her books published!第六篇 Reform on the Road Will the reform on the use of government cars really reduce office expenditure on his count? There are no reports indicating such an outcome although some local governments have moved in that direction. Hangzhou government launched its reform last month. Officials below the level of deputy bureau chief cannot use official trips for business trips. Instead they get subsidies between 300 and 2,600 yuan a month according to their administrative rank. This reform is supposed to save the government the money involving in maintaining a large number of cars. Hangzhou in east China Zhejiang province is not the first to attempt such a eform. Nanjing, capital of the neighboring Jiangsu province, did so five years ago, yet there is no report available of how much money the Nanjing government has saved by these measures. All that we know about is the fact that government officials get monthly subsidies for business from www.yingyukaoshi.com The public have a fight to asking for transparency on the results of such reform because it is taxpayers money that is being spent. Transparency is needed because people are skeptical about policy-makers making policy against their own interests. Obviously, the subsidies are not based on work needs. Lower level officials usually travel more than high-ranking officials. Therefore, the impact of reform appears to be diluted. Transparency alone can tell us whether the reform measures have indeed reduced government transport expenditure. If there is no disclosure of amounts saved by the reform, the public may have reason to suspect that the reform is actually a poly to increase the income of officials in the form of a transport subsidy. The way government cars are used needs to be reformed. The government spending on purchase of cars was 80 billion yuan in 2008, and use and maintenance amounts to around 300 billion yuan a year. A study of ancient Chinese dynasties shows that the more reforms of the tax system, the heavier the taxes eventually levied on subjects. The only way to prevent this vicious cycles from happening with government car reform today is for the higher authorities to have a strict and transparent audit of local finance第一篇 A Health ProfileA health profile is a portrait of all of the factors that influence your healthTo draw your health profile，you will need to know what diseases run in your family, what health hazards you may be exposed to at work，how your daily diet compares to the recommended standards，how much time per week you spend exercising and what type of exercise you engage in ，how stressful your work and family environments are，what kinds of illnesses you get regularly, and whether or not you have any one of a number of addictions.To complete this portrait，your should have a checkup to determine how your blood， heart，and lungs are functioningThis checkup will serve as