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My birth name is Oyindasola, a common Nigerian name, but I am often called Chelsea. Some ask why I d...
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My birth name is Oyindasola, a common Nigerian name, but I am often called Chelsea. Some ask why I don't use my real ___. I tell them a story about my father __ Chelsea a year after I was born, where he had a wonderful holiday. "Chelsea" __ to him so much that it __ on every birthday cake of mine.
When I was seven, we decided to __ to Nigeria, where my grandparents had persuaded us to buy a house to live with them. And my mother needed to know what __ there would call me. The name I'd been called for as long as I could __ or the complex name on my passport?
A week later we found ourselves at an airport with groups of Nigerians speaking as we __ our cab. Soon, my memories of Disney in America were ____ with sounds of Nigerian music. My tongue grew heavier with Nigerian _____, and the words shared between my mother and grandmother in their native tongue finally ___But, I still wasn't Nigerian enough. There unfriendly looks and __ were a constant reminder of who was: an American girl with the westernized name. So I wasn't ___ sad when my mother announced our back to America for her work.
On the first day of middle school in America, ____ hit me because I knew my birth name wouldn't _____ the attendance list. I was __ when the teacher mispronounced my painfully long name and my classmates laughed.
But with every passing year, came new ____. Every new attendance roll call was responded with a braver voice and a ____ smile. That long name, mispronounced or not, is mine. The Nigerian accent slipping through is mine. Who I am is simple: a Nigerian girl with ___ to the American dream, a girl with two __ and two names.
1.A.origin B.identity C.name D.signature
2.A.describing B.visiting C.abandoning D.leaving
3.A.means B.exposes C.applies D.commits
4.A.competes B.happens C.withdraws D.appears
5.A.travel B.move C.pace D.walk
6.A.troop B.class C.family D.staff
7.A.remember B.predict C.imagine D.survive
8.A.pulled down B.tested out C.fixed up D.headed for
9.A.connected B.replaced C.faced D.decorated
10.A.recreation B.lifestyle C.accent D.diet
11.A.made sense B.took shape C.died away D.ran out
12.A.debates B.decisions C.negotiations D.remarks
13.A.rarely B.absolutely C.casually D.eventually
14.A.anxiety B.disappointment C.rudeness D.shock
15.A.form B.throw C.ruin D.escape
16.A.guilty B.regretful C.embarrassed D.confused
17.A.sympathy B.confidence C.generosity D.honesty
18.A.kinder B.deeper C.wider D.heavier
19.A.reaction B.objection C.response D.access
20.A.languages B.advantages C.degrees D.occupations
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