单选题 No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstance. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole.
The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth. 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 wealth,/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 everyone 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 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. The entire information and entertainment industry would collapse.

单选题 The author's primary purpose in writing this passage was to ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】主旨题。文章开头就指出，在任何情况下都不能强迫人们穿制服；第二段说明穿制服会使人们丧失自我价值，并驳斥了赞成穿制服的两种观点；第三段又提到制服会制约经济。综合全文内容可知，作者主要论述了穿制服的缺点，并认为穿制服弊大于利，因此D(要使读者相信穿制服的弊端大于益处)正确。作者并未明确提出废除制服的主张，故排除A。

单选题 Why does the author discuss forcing everyone to buy the same car or eat the same food?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推断题。文章第二段倒数第三、四句指出，如果所有人都穿一样的衣服，那人们干吗还要努力过得更好一些，这离强迫每个人都开一样的车、吃同样的食物已经不远了，由此可见，作者提到same food和same car是为了说明强迫人们穿一样的衣服可能导致强迫人们开同样的车、吃同样的食物，因此C(暗示如果必须穿制服将会发生什么)正确。该段提到，赞成穿制服的人忽视了选择自由等重要概念，但这并非作者提及same food和same car 的原因，故排除A。

单选题 Which of the following statements is the opinion of those who support uniforms?

单选题 The word "superfluous" Line 4, Par

【正确答案】

【答案解析】语义题。由superfluous所在句中的as well可知，该句与前一句构成并列结构，结合句意“如果人人都被迫穿上制服，就不需要从事艺术的人了。销售人员也会变得superfluous，何必去卖惟一可卖的东西呢?”可知，superfluous应包含“多余的”或“不必要的”的含义，故选C(过剩的)。A(不可缺少的)、B(可利用的)、D(附加的)均应排除。