单选题 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 are 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 are 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 are dressed in the latest style, dancing to the most fashionable music, after watching the latest hit film, you feel great, don"t you?
单选题 What"s the author"s viewpoint about the models and their hairstyles and clothes?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。根据题干关键词the models，their hairstyles and clothes定位到原文首段首句。从原文首段首句中的incredibly，impossible，unreasonably，impracticably等词可以看出，作者对时装杂志上的模特儿及她们的发式和服饰并不认可的态度。故答案为C。
单选题 It is indicated by the author that clothes should be ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节推断题。根据题干关键词author，clothes位到原文首段第二句和尾句。原文首段最后两个问句表明了作者认为衣服应该是comfortably durable，而不应该一味追求new或者flesh，故答案为A。
单选题 The fashion industry makes profits by ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。根据题干关键词fashion industry，makes profits分别与原文第二段首句中的Fashions和make piles of money对应，据此进行定位。第二段第二句具体说明商人是如何通过时尚赚钱的。原文第二段第二句中的are convinced与选项B中的creating对应；need为原文重现。故答案为B。
单选题 The author thinks what has been found about fashions by the scientists and the historians is ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。根据题干关键词the scientists，the historians定位到原文第四段第三句。接着作者所举的两个例子看起来很有趣，但是作者重点不是为了说明这些研究结果的有趣程度，而是为了说明时尚的起因都是符合逻辑的，原文第四段第二句的logical就是证明。作者认为科学家和历史学家的研究结果是可信的。故答案为C。
单选题 The passage mentions the advantages of fashion EXCEPT that ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节判断题。根据关键词the advantages of fashion在原文进行定位。原文第五段第三句提到了Changes in fashion help to develop new technologies，与选项A对应；原文第五段第四句提到了Changes in style create work for people all over the world，与选项C对应；原文尾段尾句提到了you feel great与选项D对应。只有选项B在文中没有提及。故答案为B。