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Fashion magazines and TV advertisements seem to connect fashion with ______.
A．confidence
B．appearance
C．personal taste
D．make-up
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A．gorgeous
B．gracious
C．glorious
D．graceful
On British Newspapers
Besides the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspapers in Britain. Many of them are connected with the "dailies", though not run by the same editor and his members. The Sunday papers are larger than the daily papers and usually contain more articles concerned with comment (评论) and general information rather than news. The national daily and Sunday papers have the largest circulation(发行) in the world. Of the Sunday papers, the Observer and the Sunday Times are the best known.
It is a regrettable fact that the number of magazines of a literary or political nature has dropped down since the war. This has probably been caused by the ever-wider use of radio and television. The most successful magazines are those published for women. Their covers are designed to catch the eye, and they certainly succeed in doing so! They offer their readers articles on cookery (烹饪法), fashion, needlework, and many other matters of women interest. They also provide advice to those in love, and adventures with handsome heroes. Some women's magazines also include serious articles of more general interest.
The visitor who looks at the magazines displayed in a large bookstall (书摊) which may be found in an important railway station will notice that there is a wide variety of technical or semitechnical(半专业的) books and magazines. There are magazines for the motorist, the farmer, the gardener, the nurse, and many others.
There are many local and regional newspapers. It is common in Britain for a news agent(报刊经售人) to deliver (投递) the morning papers to his customers for a small extra payment, this service is usually performed by boys and girls who want to earn some pocket-money.
Some Sunday newspapers may belong to the same publishing company but are not edited by the same group of people.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
On British Newspapers
Besides the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspapers in Britain. Many of them are connected with the "dailies", though not run by the same editor and his members. The Sunday papers are larger than the daily papers and usually contain more articles concerned with comment (评论) and general information rather than news. The national daily and Sun day papers have the largest circulation(发行) in the world. Of the Sunday papers, the Observer and the Sunday Times are the best known.
It is a regrettable fact that the number of magazines of a literary or political nature has dropped down since the war. This has probably been caused by the ever-wider use of radio and television. The most successful magazines are those published for women. Their covers are designed to catch the eye, and they certainly succeed in doing so! They offer their readers articles on cookery (烹饪法), fashion, needlework, and many other matters of women interest. They also provide advice to those in love, and adventures with handsome heroes. Some women's magazines also include serious articles of more general interest.
The visitor who looks at the magazines displayed in a large bookstall (书摊) which may be found in an important railway station will notice that there is a wide variety of technical or semitechnical(半专业的) books and magazines. There are magazines for the motorist, the farmer, the gardener, the nurse, and many others.
There are many local and regional newspapers. It is common in Britain for a news agent(报刊经售人) to deliver (投递) the morning papers to his customers for a small extra payment, this service is usually performed by boys and girls who want to earn some pocket-money
Some Sunday newspapers may belong to the same publishing company but are not edited by the same group of people.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
On British Newspapers
1 Besides the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspapers in Britain. Many of them are connected with the "dailies", though not run by the same editor and his members. The Sunday papers are larger than the daily papers and usually contain more articles concerned with comment and general information rather than news. The national daily and Sunday papers have the largest circulation in the world. Of the Sunday papers, the Observer and the Sunday Times are the best known.
2. It is a regrettable fact that the number of magazines of a literary or political nature has dropped down since the war. This has probably been caused by the ever-wider use of radio and television The most successful magazines are those published for women. Their covers are designed to catch the eye, and they certainly succeed in doing so! They offer their readers articles on fashion, needlework, and many other matters of women interest. They also provide advice to those in love, and adventures with handsome heroes. Some women's magazines also include serious articles of more general interest.
3 The visitor who looks at the magazines displayed in a large bookstall which may be found in an important railway station will notice that there is wide variety of technical books and magazines. There are magazines for the motorist, the farmer, the gardener, the nurse, and many others.
4 Thre are many local and regional newspaper. It is common in Britain for a news agent to deliver the morning papers to his customers for a small extra payment; this service is usually performed by boys and girls who want to earn some pocket-money.
A changes of Newspapers
B service by Newspapers
C sale place of Newspapers
D popularity of Newspapers
E Trend of Newspapers
F Types of Newspapers in Britain
Paragraph 2 ______
Highwoods Book City
New Chain Store Opening
Highwoods Book City is proud to announce the opening of a new chain store on Sunday, February. 16th at 307 River Road, just opposite the KFC.
The new chain store will offer you various books, ranging from classic books to modern ones, from prose to novels, from comic books to scientific ones. It also provides medical books for elderly people, cooking materials for housewives, fashion magazines for young ladies, and knowledge-based books for students.
To mark this special occasion, we offer a special open of discount to our customers. Just fill in the following coupon and bring it to us between February 16th to March 16th, and you will enjoy a 20% discount on any book you purchase.
What is the purpose of this advertisement？
A．To introduce the history of the book store
B．To memorize a city called Highwoods Book
C．To attract more customers for purchasing books
D．To announce the new address of the Book City
Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us that we should dress in a certain way or behave in a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment. Changing fashion, of course, does not apply just to dress. A barber today does not cut a boy's hair in the same way as he used to, and girls do not make up in the same way as their mothers and grandmothers did. The advertisers show us the latest fashionable styles and we are constantly under pressure to follow the fashion in case our friends think we are odd or dull.
What causes fashions to change？ Sometimes convenience or practical necessity or just the fancy of an influential person can establish a fashion. Take hats, for example. In cold climates, early buildings were cold inside, so people wore hats indoors as well as outside. In recent times, the late President Kennedy caused a depression in the American hat industry by not wearing hats: more American men followed his example.
There is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the 1920s in Europe and America, short skirts became fashionable. After World War Two, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter and the miniskirt was in fashion. After a few more years, skirts became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier than it used to be. It is no longer necessary to dress like everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you like or do your hair the way you like instead of the way you should because it is the fashion. The popularity of jeans and the "untidy" look seems to be a reaction against the increasingly expensive fashion of the top fashion houses.
At the same time, appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully. It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be discourteous (不礼貌的，失礼的) to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club. However, you need never feel depressed if you don't took like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you'll see that no one else does either!
According to the first paragraph, we begin to worry our appearance more at the age of ______.
A．twelve
B．twenty-eight
C．ten
D．eighteen
Are Young Girls Out of Control Today？
Images on fashion magazines and television are constantly promoting sex in their advertisements. Our society gives young girls the wrong message:______【46】One of my favorite stores is Abercombie& Fitch. The other day, I walked into the kid's store by mistake and was in shock to see the length of the dark denim ripped jean shorts and skirts. Why are parents allowing their pre -teen daughters to strut around in sexually revealing clothes？
______【47】Apparently, some parents are not doing a good job in raising their kids today. Instead of being parents and instilling good morals and values, they are just condoning inappropriate behavior. for fear that their kid will rebel or runaway from home.
On the weekends, parents drop off their daughters at the movie theater where they meet up with their friends and boyfriends. Most of the girls are under the age of 15 and are parading in skimpy attires waiting for their parents to pick them up late at night. Todays generation is out of control. Parents are very liberal and give their kids way too much freedom. It really upsets me whenever I hear parents saying that they can't control their kids. Of course they can, they just need to set boundaries and be firm. Secondly, a lot of girls grow up without a father figure and this presents a problem because without the guidance and protection of a loving father figure, ______【48】.
______【49】but that doesn't mean that everyone has to wear them. Younger girls these days need to learn to value and respect themselves. If a young girl or woman is dressed like a hoochie, what does that say about herself？ She is already inviting disrespect from men who are only interested in getting laid. A lot of women get upset when men refer to them as sluts because of the way they dressed, however, ______【50】You can look pretty and sexy without looking slutty. I believe that you should dress and behave in a way that shows you have class and respect yourself. If you don't respect yourself, then nobody else will.
A. Mothers who have been brought up with an iron fist would know the meaning of the code of decency.
B. many girls engage in promiscuous behavior. seeking love and attention in all the wrong ways.
C. Revealing and sexually suggestive clothing for younger girls is a trend and designer stores are selling them,
D. the way you dress says a lot about you.
E. the less you wear, the better.
F. Aren't parents supposed to be role models for their children？
(46)
What is the purpose of the article？
A．To explain why the sales for a magazine increased
B．To encourage the public to read a fashion magazine
C．To announce that a company will open a new publishing company
D．To describe how to establish a consulting firm
Beauty and Body Image in theMedia
A. Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women—and their bodyparts--sell everything from food to cars.Popular film and television actressesare becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known tofaint onthe set from lack of food. Women's magazines are full &articles urging thatif they can just lose thoselast twentypounds, they'll have it all—the perfect marriage, loving children, great sex,and a rewarding career
B. Why arc standards of beauty being imposed on women, the majorityofwhom are naturally larger and moremature than any of the models？ The roots,some analysts say, are economic. By presenting an ideal difficult toachieve andmaintain, the cosmetic and diet product industries arc assured of growth andprofits. And it's noaccident that youth is increasingly promoted, along withthinness, as an essential criterion of beauty. If not allwomen need to loseweight, for sure they're all aging, says the Quebec Action Network for Women'sHealth inits 2001 report. And, according to the industry, age is a disasterthat needs to be dealt with.
C. The stakes are huge. On the one hand, women who are insecure about their bodies arc more likely tobuybeauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. It is estimated that the dietindustry alone is worth anywherebetween 40 to 100 billion U.S.. a year selling temporary weight loss (90% to 95% of dieters regainthe lostweight.). On the other hand, research indicatesthat exposure to images of thin, young, air-brushed femalebodies is linked todepression, loss of self-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating habitsin womenand girls.
D. The American research group Anorexia Nervosa & Related EatingDisorders, Inc. says that one out of everyfour college-aged women usesunhealthy methods of weight control--including fasting, skippingmeals,excessive exercise, laxative (泻药.) abuse, andself-induced vomiting. The pressure to be thin is also affectingyoung girls:the Canadian Women's Health Network warns that weight control measures are nowbeing takenby girls as young as 5 and 6. American statistics are similar.Several studies, such as one conducted by MarikaTiggemann and Levina Clark in2006 titled "Appearance Culture in 9- to 12-Year-Old Girls: Media andPeerInfluences on Body Dissatisfaction," indicate that nearly half of allpreadolescent girls wish to be thinner, andas a result have engaged in a dietor are aware of the concept of dieting. In 2003, Teen magazine reported that35percent of girls 6 to 12 years old have been on at least one diet, and that 50to 70 percent of normal weightgirls believe they are overweight. Overallresearch indicates that 90% of women are dissatisfied with theirappearance insome way. Media activist Jean Kilbourne concludes that, "Women are sold tothe diet industryby the magazines we read and the television programs we watch,almost all of which make us feel anxiousabout our weight."
E. Perhaps the most disturbing is the fact that media images of femalebeauty are unattainable for all but a verysmall number of women. Researchersgenerating a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions,forexample, found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of herupper body, and her bodywould be too narrow to contain more than halfa liverand a few centimeters of bowel. A real woman built thatway would suffer fromchronic diarrhea (慢性腹泻). and eventually die frommalnutrition. Jill Barad,President of Mattel which manufactures Barbie., estimated that 99% of girls aged 3 to 10 years old own atleast oneBarbie doll. Still, the number of real life women and girls who seek asimilarly underweight body isepidemic, and they can suffer equally devastatinghealth consequences. In 2006 it was estimated that up to450,000 Canadian womenwere affected by an eating disorder.
F. Researchers report thatwomen's magazines have ten and one-half times more ads and articlespromotingweight loss than men's magazines do, and over three-quarters of thecovers of women's magazines include atleast one message about how to change awoman's bodily appearance--by diet, exercise or cosmetic surgery.Television andmovies reinforce the importance of a thin body as a measure of a woman's worth.Canadianresearcher Gregory Fouts reports that over three-quarters of the femalecharacters in TV situation comedies areunderweight, and only one in twenty areabove average in size. Heavier actresses tend to receive negativecomments frommale characters about their bodies ("How about wearing a sack？") ., and 80 percent of thesenegative comments are followed by cannedaudience laughter.
G. There have been efforts in the magazine industry to buck (抵制，反抗.) the trend. For several years the Quebecmagazine Coup de Pouce hasconsistently included full-sized women in their fashion pages and Chatelainehaspledged not to touch up photos and not to include models less than 25 yearsof age. In Madrid, one of theworld's biggest fashion capitals, ultra-thinmodels were banned from the runway in 2006. Furthermore Spainhas recentlyundergone a project with the aim to standardize clothing sizes through using aunique process inwhich a laser beam is used to measure real life women's bodiesin order to find the most tree to lifemeasurement.
H. Another issue is the representation of ethnically diverse women inthe media. A 2008 study conducted byJuanita Covert and Travis Dixon titled"A Changing View: Representation and Effects of the Portrayal ofWomen ofColor in Mainstream Women's Magazines" found that although there was anincrease in therepresentation of women of c01our, overall white women wereoverrepresented in mainstream women'smagazines from 1999 to 2004.
I. The barrage of messagesabout thinness, dieting and beauty tells "ordinary" women that theyare always inneed of adjustment--and that the female body is an object to beperfected. Jean Kilboume argues that theoverwhelming presence of media imagesof painfully thin women means that real women's bodies have become invisible in the mass media。 The real tragedy, Kilbourne concludes, is that many womeninternalizethese stereotypes, and judge themselves by the beauty industry'sstandards. Women learn to comparethemselves to other women, and to compete withthem for male attention: This focus on beauty and desirability"effectivelydestroys any awareness and action that might help to change that climate."
根据以上内容，回答46-55题.
46、A report in Teen magazineshowed that 50% to 70% girls with normal weight think that they need to lose weight.
47、On the whole, for 6 yearswhite women had been occupying much more space in mainstream women's magazines since 1999.
48、Some negative effects suchas depression and unhealthy eating habits in females are related to their being exposed to images of thin and young femalebodies.
49、The mass media has helpedboost the cosmetic and the diet industries.
50、It is reported that thereis at least one message about the methods for women to change their bodilyappearance on more than three-quarters of the coversof women's magazines.
51、Some film and televisionactresses even faint on the scene due to eating too little.
52、Too much concern withappearance makes it impossible to change such abnormal trend.
53、Researchers found that areal woman with Barbie-doll proportions would eventually die from malnutrition.
54、The Quebec magazine Coup dePouce resists the trend by consistently including full-sized women in their fashion pages for several years.
55、According to some analysts,the fundamental reason of imposing standards of beauty on women is economic
There are those who say that wearing a uniform. gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself？ If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy person who wears expensive quality clothing. Those persons conveniently ignore such critical concepts as freedom of choice, motivation, and individuality. If all persons were to wear the same clothing, why would anyone strive to be better？ It is only a short step from forcing anyone to drive the same car, have the same type of foods. When this happens, all incentive to improve one's life is removed. Why would parents bother to work so hard so that their children could have a better life than they had when they know that their children are going to be forced to have exactly the same life that they had？
Uniforms also hurt the economy. Right now, billions of dollars are spent on the fashion industry yearly. Thousands of persons are employed in designing, creating and marketing different types of clothing. If everyone were forced to wear uniforms, artistic personnel would be unnecessary. Sales persons would be superfluous as well; why bother to sell the only items that are available？ The wearing of uniforms would destroy the fashion industry, which in turn would have a ripple effect on such industries as advertising and promotion. Without advertising, newspapers, magazines, and television would not be able to remain in business. One entire information and entertainment industry would collapse.
What is the main idea of this passage？
A．Wearing uniforms has both advantages and disadvantages.
B．Wearing uniforms should be promoted strongly.
C．Wearing uniforms will destroy economy.
D．Wearing uniforms have many negative effects.
