阅读理解 How we look and how we appear to others probably worries us more when we are in our teens or early twenties than at any other time in our life. Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion. 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 building 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 II, they dropped to ankle length. Then they got shorter and shorter until 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 fashions 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 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 look like the latest fashion photo. Look around you and you''ll see that no one else does either!
单选题 The author thinks that people are_______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】文章第一段第一句指出或许人们在十几岁、二十几岁时最关注自已的外表，否定了B)。第二句Few of us are content to accept ourselves as we are，and few are brave enough to ignore the trends of fashion.指出很少有人对自己的外表满意，也很少有人勇于忽视时尚的流行。C)中的neglecting与文中的ignore意义相符。
单选题 Fashion magazines and TV advertisements seem to link fashion to_______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】文章第二段谈到Most fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to persuade us…，we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment.因此，时尚杂志和电视广告把时尚和人们生活中的自信联系在一起，A)中的confidence与文章意思吻合。
单选题 Causes of fashions are_______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】文章第三段讨论时尚变换的原因时，提及几种不同的情况和原因。因此，时尚变换的原因是多种的，并非同定的、不可知的和无法解释的。
单选题 Present-day society is much freer and easier because it emphasizes_______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文章第五段谈到…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.说明，现代社会变得更加自由、宽松的原因在于今天的时尚强调自我的个性。只有D)表示“个性”。
单选题 Which is the main idea of the last paragraph?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】文章最后一段强凋At the same time，appearance is still important in certain circumstances and then we must choose our clothes carefully.即在某些正式的场合下，穿着得体依然相当重要。A)是此句的同义转述。作者并没有强调在非正式场合或任何场合都应该忽略外表，也没有强调无论正式、非正式场合都要体现时尚。