交大英语水平考试样题分析-2017年10月.docx

Popular connect favorite race affect compare Decrease deprivation act out signify effect derive increase major concludeA name might tell you something about a persons background. Names can be 1) _signifiers_____（词义辨析 sign与signifier）____ of class and race. Data show African Americans are far more likely than other 2) __racial________ groups（搭配）to give their children uncommon names. White people tend to 3) __favor______ （white people与African American应该是对比的，所以结合上句应该是恰好相反的含义）more familiar names that were formerly popular with more affluent white people. The new study purports to show a link between name and outcome of life: The more 4) ____unpopular__（这里是反义词形变化）___ your name（联系后面的要看完整个一句）, the more likely you are to land in juvenile hall. Thats because we know that boys with uncommon names are more likely to come from a socio-economically 5) _deprived________ （应该是不好的）（我是最后把其他空都填好后再回来从剩下的词中挑选，因为往往这是你才会考虑词语的不常用意思）background, which means that they also are more likely to get involved with crime. Even the researchers readily admit that its not a name alone that 6）__affects_____ a childs outcome, but rather the circumstance underlying the name.The researchers first assigned a popularity score to boys names, based on how often they showed up in birth records in an undisclosed state from 1987 to 1991. Michael, the No. 1 boys name, had a Popular Name Index score of 100; names such as Malcolm and Preston had index scores of 1. The researchers then assessed names of young men born during that time who landed in the juvenile justice system. They found that only half had a rating higher than 11. By 7) __comparison____（搭配）____, in the general population, half of the names scored higher than 20. A 10% increase in the popularity of a name is associated with a 3.7% 8) ___decrease___(综合理解)___ in the number of juvenile delinquents who have that name.Still, the study theorizes that teenagers named Malcolm might also 9) _act out_______（猜测这里是不印证结论，也就是犯罪率低的意思）___ because their peers treat th