A. Places where people lived.

　　B. People’s characters.

　　C. Talents that people possessed.

　　D. People’s occupations.

　　2. According to the passage, the ancestors of the Potter family most probably _______.

　　A. owned or drove a cart

　　B. made things with metals

　　C. made kitchen tools or containers

　　D. built houses and furniture

　　3. Suppose an English couple whose ancestors lived near a leafy forest wanted their new-born son to become a world leader, the baby might be named _______.

　　A. Beatrice Smith

　　B. Leonard Carter

　　C. George Longstreet

　　D. Donald Greenwood

　　4. The underlined word “descendants” in the last paragraph means a person’s _____.

　　A. later generations

　　B. friends and relatives

　　C. colleagues and partners

　　D. later sponsors

　　1. B 细节题 根据文中第5段 “The earliest last names, or surnames, were taken from place names.” 第6段“Other early surnames came from people’s occupations.”第8段“Sometimes people were known for····their special abilities.”分别可以排除A, C, D, 得出答案B。

　　2.C 推断题 根据文中第6段最后一句“Potter—a person who made pots and pans.”可知potter意为一个制作茶壶和平底锅的人，得出答案C。

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