单选题 .  You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.
    Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue. In an editorial released Monday in the American Journal of Public Health, Katherine Record and Bryn Austin made their case for government regulation of the fashion industry.
    The average international runway model has a body mass index (BMI) under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard. And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.
    "Especially girls and teens," says Record. "Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines." That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia (厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
    It's commonly known that certain diseases are linked with occupations like lung disease in coal miners. Professional fashion models are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders resulting from occupational demands to maintain extreme thinness.
    Record's suggestion is to prohibit agents from biting models with a BMI below 18.
    In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model's weight. Agents and fashion houses who hire models with a BMI under 18 could pay $82,000 in fines and spend up to 6 months in jail. Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says. But with the new rules in France, U.S. support could make a difference. "A designer can't survive without participating in Paris Fashion Week", she says, adding, "Our argument is that the same would be true of New York Fashion Week."1.  What do Record and Austin say about fashion models' body mass? ______
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】 根据题干中的models' body mass定位至第2段第1句。
   本题询问Record和Austin对时装模特的体重的看法。该段第1句提到模特的体重，两名研究人员(在文中即指Record和Austin)认为它是工作场所的健康和安全问题(a workplace health and safety issue)，D项“它影响模特的健康和安全”是对该处的同义表达，故选D。
   该句前半部分也提到controversy“争议”一词，文中说的是这一问题几十年来一直存在争议，但并没有说模特体重这个争论不必要，故A项“它已经引发不必要的争论”不对。B项“它不过是个人品味的问题”与文意相反，文中workplace暗示的是这是整个行业的问题，并非个人问题。C项“它是模特界的焦点”没有根据，文中提到关注这个问题都是行业外的人士，如政府、卫生机构的看法，并没有提到模持界本身的看法。
[参考译文] 你可能听说过时尚界的一些恐怖故事：模特吃纸巾或棉球来充饥：模特刚从T台走下来就倒下了，原因竟是饥饿引发的心脏病。
   骨瘦如柴的模特几十年来一直都是一个备受争议的话题。两名研究人员说模特的体重应该是工作场所的健康和安全问题。在一篇周一发行的《美国公共卫生期刊》社论中，凯瑟琳·芮克德和布莱恩·奥斯汀提出了政府应对时尚界进行监管的论据。
   国际T台模特的平均身高体重指数(BMI)低于6——该数值已低至世界卫生组织界定的饥饿标准。芮克德和奥斯汀担忧的不仅仅是模特本身，还担忧这些模特形象会影响许多女孩和妇女。
   “尤其是女孩和青少年，”芮克德说，“70%年龄介乎10岁到18岁的女孩表示，她们会根据杂志上所看到的来定义完美的体形。”她说这种情况非常令人担忧，因为美国心理健康研究所指出，厌食症所致的死亡人数比其他精神疾病更多。
   众所周知，某些疾病与职业有关，比方说煤矿工人易得肺病。专业时装模特则由于职业要求必须保持极度苗条而很容易出现饮食失调。
   芮克德的建议是禁止经纪人雇用BMI低于18的模特。
   今年4月份，法国通过了一项规定模特体重下限的法律。经纪人和时装公司雇用BMI低于18的模特将被处以8.2万美元的罚款，并最长监禁6个月。芮克德说，对美国的时尚界进行监管并不容易。但对于法国的新法规，美国的支持可能产生影响。“设计师不参加巴黎时装周就活不下去，”她说，并补充道，“我们认为纽约时装周的情况也是如此。”