Passage 2
Open up most fashion magazines and you will see incredibly thin models with impossible hair and wearing unreasonably expensive, impracticably styled clothes. But shouldn‟t clothes be comfortably durable and make a principle of being simple for the individual who wears them? Why are we constantly told that we need to buy new clothes and add fresh pieces to our collection?
Fashions change year after year so lots of people can make piles of money. If folks are convinced that they need a different look each season, that this year‟s sweater‟s length and shoes style are important, they can be persuaded to buy. The fashion industry would have you ignore your shortcomings and just make you feel beautiful and happy. In fact it is not only a phenomenon we can find in people‟s dressing.
Fashion controls our lives. Fashion controls what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, the way we cut our hair, the makeup we buy and use, the color of the cars we drive.Fashion even controls our ideas.
You don‟t believe me? How many of your friends are vegetarians? Why are they vegetarians? Because it is fashionable!
Where does fashion come from? Often the reasons arc quite logical. Scientists and historians study the fashions of the past and discover the secrets of each fashion. When girls see an attractive guy, their blood pressure rises and their lips become redder. That‟s why guys think that girls wearing lipstick arc beautiful. Why do guys shave their heads? In the past soldiers shaved their heads to kill the insects that lived in their hair. Now guys shave their heads so that they look strong and masculine, like soldiers.
People spend a lot of time and money on fashion. But are they wasting their money? Changes in fashion help to develop new technologies. Changes in style create work for people all over the world. Many people work in the fashion industry, particularly in the fashion capitals of London, New York, Paris and Milan.
And finally, fashion makes you feel good, doesn‟t it? When you arc dressed in the latest style, dancing to the most fashionable music, after watching the latest hit film, you feel great, don‟t you?
What‟s the author‟s viewpoint about the models and their hairstyles and clothes?
根据文章第一段“incredibly”（难以置信地） 、 “impossible”（不可能的） 、“unreasonably”（不合理地） 、 “impracticably”（不切实际地） 等词可以看出作者对时装杂志上的模特儿及他们的发式和服饰持不认可的态度。 unbiased意为“无偏见的”， indifferent意为“漠不关心的”， critical意为“批评的”， appreciative意为“赏识的”，故选C。
It is indicated by the author that clothes should be ________.
由文章第一段第二句“But shouldn‟t clothes be comfortably durable and make a principle of being simple for the individual who wears them?”可知作者认为人们所穿的衣服应该是舒适并且耐穿的， 故选A。
The fashion industry makes profits by ________.
文章第二段第二句指出“If folks are convinced that they need a different look each season, that this year‟s sweater‟s length and shoes style are important, they can be persuaded to buy”。 如果人们被告知每个季节需要有不同的造型， 而且毛衣和鞋子款式很重要， 那么人们就会花钱购买。 由此可知时尚业能使人们觉得需要某种东西，故选B。
The author thinks what has been found about fashions by the scientists and the historians is ________.
文章第五段第二句提到“Often the reasons arc quite logical”。 由此可知作者认为科学家和历史学家的研究结果是有逻辑的。 incredible意为“难以置信的”，amazing意为“令人惊讶的”， reasonable意为“合理的”， creative意为“有创造性的”， 故选C。
The passage mentions the advantages of fashion EXCEPT that ________.
本题需要选择错误选择。 文章倒数第二段第三句提到“Changes in fashion help to develop new technologies”。 由此可知时尚可以促进科技进步， 选项A符合原意。 文章倒数第二段第四句指出“Changes in style create work for people all over the world. Many people work in the fashion industry...”。 由此可知时尚可以刺激就业， 选项C符合原意。 文章最后一段第一句写到“And finally, fashion makes you feel good, doesn‟t it”。 由此可知时尚让人自我感觉良好， 选项D符合原意。 综上所述， 选项B当选。