Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Personal names are generally regarded by European thinkers in two

[textarea] 4. The primary function of the second paragraph isto

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Explanation

The secondparagraph backs up the author’s claim in Paragraph1 that Hopi names can signify more than Mill and Levi-Strauss thought. The rites of passage example and the “littlerabbit” example both indicate that names can have meaning. In other words, they can have semantic content, as(D) indicates.

(A) and(E) come from the wrong paragraph. The “poeticcomposition” stuff referred to in(A) comes in paragraph3 . As for(E) , the only literal translation we get is “littlerabbit,” which doesn’t obscure any meaning. The name giver just thinks the kid looks like a little rabbit. Nothing mysterious there. The name with a misleading literal translation was“Lomayayva,” but that comes from the thirdparagraph.

(B) is too limited. The paragraph does claim that Hopis receive names that refer
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