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1、LECTUREAUDIOSCRIPTSCONTEMPORARYTOPICS263CONTEMPORARYTOPICS263Unit1What'sinaName?Teacher：Goodmorning,everybody.Goodmorning,Felipe,Monica,Theo,...andIcantrememberyourname.Student1：Patricia.丨.Teacher：Patricia,right,Patricia.Thoseareallbeautifulnames,andthat’sourtopictod

2、ay一names.Namesareaculturaluniversal.Thismeanseveryoneusesnames.Apersonsnamecantellusabitaboutapersonsfamily.Today,we，llbeginbylookingatfirstnamesandhowpeoplechoosenamesfortheirchildren.Andthenwelltalkaboutfamilynames,andlookatthedifferentcategoriesoffamilynames.Alth

3、oughthescopeofthelecturetodayisEnglish-languagenames,wecanusethesameapproach,youknow,tolookatnamesfromanyculture.Letstakeabriefookatfirst,orgiven,names.Thereareseveralwaysparent'schoosethefirstnamefortheirchild.Thefirstwayisbyfamilyhistory.Parentsmaychooseanamebecau

4、seitispassed*fromgenerationtogeneration；forexample,thefirstbornsonmightbenamedafterhisfatherorgrandfather.Althoughfamilynamesarealsopassedtodaughters,itisusuallyasamiddlename.Adding“junior”.or“thesecond”一forexample,WilliamParkerthesecond—isonlydonewithboys,notwithgir

5、ls5names.Thesecondwayparentschooseanameisafterafamilymemberorfriendwhohasdiedrecently,oraftersomeonetheyadmire,likeawell-knownleaderorafamousmusician.AlthoughmostEnglishfirstnamesmeansomething,forexample,“Richard”meanspowerfuland“Ann”meansgrace,nowadaysmeaningisnott

6、hemainreasonpeopleselecttheirbaby'sname.Thethirdwayistoprovidea“push”forthechild.Parentswantcochooseanamethatsoundsvery“successful.”Astrongnamemighthelptheminthebusinessworld,forexample.Ortheymightchooseanamethatworksforeithergender,likelaylororTerry.So,giventhesethr

7、eemethods,whatisthemostcommonwayparentschooseaname?Manyparentschooscanamesimplybecausetheylikeit,orbecauseitsfashionableorclassic.Fashionsinnameschangejustastheydoincloches.Onehundredyearsago,manynamescamefromtheBible~namessuchasDaniel,andAnna,andHannahandMatthew.The

8、n,fiftyyearsago,Biblicalnameswentoutoffashion.Nowadays,namesfromtheBiblearebecomingpopularagain.Similarly,parentsoftenchooseclassi