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The origin of the place name “Mendocino,” which today belongs to a county and a city in northern California, is rather murky. We can find a geographic feature named “Cape Mendocino” as early as 1587 on the maps of Ortelius. After his return from an expedition in 1602, Father Antonio de la Ascensión wrote, “There may be some curious person who may wish to know why this cape or point of land came to be named ‘Mendocino.” The reason is that when Don Antonio de Mendoza was viceroy of New Spain in 1542, he sent two ships to the Philippines. When they returned, the first land they saw was this Cape Mendocino, to which they gave the name in honor and remembrance of the viceroy.”

This story endured and was repeated in a somewhat garbled fashion more than two centuries later by Duflot de Mofras. While no substantive evidence for the story has ever been found, this account has also never been conclusively disproved. Since the name apparently does not appear on maps until 1587, it is possible (and more plausible) that the cape was named for Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain from 1580 to 1583. If one of the two viceroys was thus honored, the place name was created by the relatively rare method of using the adjective form of the personal name, a derivation comparable to that of Smithsonian or Wagnerian. In Argentina, a Mendocino is a person from the city of Mendoza. It is also not impossible that some European cartographer arbitrarily placed the name on the map. “Mendocino” is the oldest name of a cape that has survived the various phases of real and imaginary California geography, with the same spelling and in the same general location.

(1) The passage implies that
(A) Don Antonio de Mendoza and Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza were both born in Argentina.
(B) Like “Mendocino,” “Smithsonian” and “Wagnerian” are also place names.
(C) In the sixteenth century, place names were always created by returning explorers who wanted to honor their leaders.
(D) Father Antonio de la Ascensión was the first to write an account of how Cape Mendocino got its name
(E) It was less likely in the sixteenth century that a place would be named after a ruler several decades in the past instead of a ruler from the more immediate past.

(2) Which of the following is most likely to come next were the passage to continue?
(A) Duflot de Mofras was a nineteenth-century French diplomat and explorer who spent four years exploring the western coast of North America.
(B) The study of place names is called toponymy, a word derived from the Greek for “place” and “name.”
(C) However, the name was not definitively identified with a cape at latitude 40° 27’ north until Malaspina placed it on his map in 1791.
(D) Simply selecting a name at random to apply to a certain geographic feature was a common practice among European cartographers during the sixteenth century.
(E) Today, the city and county of Mendocino are popular tourist destinations, known for their dramatic sea views and idiosyncratic local culture.

(3) Which of the following best describes the function of the second paragraph?
(A) It provides evidence that demonstrates that an explanation given in the first paragraph may not be the only possible explanation.
(B) It shows how the premises given in the first paragraph lead to a conclusion.
(C) It brings together historical data that suggest a single answer to a question posed in the first paragraph
(D) It debunks the myth established in the first paragraph, replacing it with an accurate representation.
(E) It repeats different versions of the same story told in the first paragraph.

(4) According to the passage, the word “Mendocino”
(A) may have been invented by Ortelius in 1587
(B) came about as a result of a misunderstanding on the part of Duflot de Mofras
(C) was first heard by European explorers in the Philippines
(D) has a grammatical relationship to the names of two viceroys
(E) was first used by cartographers in 1542

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文章大概结构 探究Mendocino的origin
Mendocino的origin有些神秘，这个地方最早1587的一个地图O上被称为“CM”。引出FA对这个name的解释是说了一个viceroy在航海回来的时候给它赐名，有honor的意义。
进一步讲这个故事后续被传播但是没有证据，所以也有另一种可能named for L。 如果真的是为了honor 其中一个 viceroy，用adj形式也很少见，但不可能是做地图的人随便写的一个名字。 最后重生了一下M origin的起源神秘古老…

1 E
A 两个人都是NS的viceroy 文章只提到M这个名字在A地方是来自于Mendoza的
B 这是adjective form of personal name
C 太infer了文章没说过这个有点以偏概全 always有些绝对
D 没提及是不是first
E 第二段第三句有一种假设就是这个名字在1587才在地图上出现 更可能是name for L ✔️

2 第二段是又提出了几个假设，最后一句还是说这个名字流传时间久没有变化 …看完选项感觉都不太合适 B  however转折说直到1791前都没有明确identify，和第一句话murky对应，或许比较合适？

3 A感觉还是在找解释和其他可能

4 A 开始提到了may这个可能
B 没有misunderstanding
C 不是heard可能是他们命名的
D 不是relationship可能是两者择一
E 1542才刚发现命名还没有used

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1. 讨论M地这个名字的起源，给了其中一个解释，和纪念DSDM有关
2. 对前面这个故事抱迟疑态度，解释原因，起到另一个人LSDM，但是用人命作为地名是不太常见的，并提出另外的可能性

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1, opinion 1: place name “Mendocino” comes from the Don Antonio de Mendoza in 1542

2, opinion 2:  op1 is not plausible, since it does not appear until 1587. it is more plausible that the cape was named for Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, viceroy from 1580 to 1583.
option 3: op1 and op2 is not plausible. It is also possible that some European cartographer arbitrarily placed the name on the map.

1, B
If one of the two viceroys was thus honored, the place name was createdby the relatively rare method of using the adjective form of the personal name,a derivation comparable to that of Smithsonian or Wagnerian

2,E
sounds like

3,A
While no substantive evidence for the story has ever been found, this accounthas also never been conclusively disproved

4,A
Last op: It is also not impossible thatsome European cartographer arbitrarily placed the name on the map.

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