I have never liked my English name. My parents didn't know that Cindy was short for Cynthia, or that Cindy Brady was the Cindy of the moment. They __1__ (choose) it because it sounds like my Chinese name, Shin­tzer.

　　My name isn't full of flowers like most Chinese girls names. My grandfather wanted me to have __2__ (strong) of character, not mere physical beauty. "Cindy" seems colorless by comparison. It's just a couple of syllables that sound good together.

　　I grew up __3__ (speak) English and eating with a fork. Yet the customs about names are extremely __4__ (tradition), down to our use of an ancient naming poem.

　　Most Chinese names are __5__ of a kind, a coupling of two words out of thousands of possibilities expressing the family's hopes for the child. It was March when my brother and his wife __6__ (expect) their second boy. The emails began to fly as we conferred about the baby's Chinese name. My brother's wife is a Korean, so the name had to sound good __7__ Korean, too. One thing was certain - his name would contain the word "shi"， or "world"， __8__ can also mean "generation". We are on the __9__ (six) word of a couplet that my family has used to name its __10__ (son) for generations.

　　语篇解读：本文是夹叙夹议文。作者通过叙述自己名字的由来及成长经历，介绍了中国人起名的特点及寓意。

　　1．chose　父母为作者起名字发生在过去，所以此处用一般过去时。

　　2．strength　作者的祖父想让作者意志力坚强。have在此处为实义动词，意为"有"，后跟名词作宾语。

　　3．speaking　作者是讲英语和用叉子吃饭长大的。此处的主语I与动词speak之间为逻辑上的主谓关系，故填speaking。"and eating"也为提示。

　　4．traditional　然而关于名字的风俗是非常传统的。此处应用形容词作表语。

　　5．ones　根据下文中的"a coupling of two words out of thousands of possibilities expressing the family's hopes for the child"的提示可知，此处为泛指，且与下文中的"two words"相呼应，所以此处用代词one的复数形式表示泛指。

　　6．were expecting　那是在三月份的时候，作者的哥哥和他的妻子一直期待着他们第二个儿子的出生。此处叙述的是发生在过去的事情，应用过去时态，且表示过去某一阶段持续的动作，故用过去进行时。

7．in　表示用某种语言用介词in。